Marsden Hartley

[American Painter, 1877-1943]

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Original works by Marsden Hartley available for purchase at art galleries worldwide

Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries:

Art Institute of Chicago Collection Database
2 works by Marsden Hartley online

Butler Institute of American Art, Ohio
Birds of the Bagaduce, 1939

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
6 works by Marsden Hartley

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.

Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana

Marsden Hartley at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Mt. Katahdin, Maine, Number 2, 1939-40 (Zoom)
Portrait of a German Officer, 1914 (Zoom)

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Drawings collection online

Marsden Hartley at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
6 works by Marsden Hartley

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Missouri
Himmel, ca.1914-15 (Zoom)

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Missouri
Down East Young Blades, ca.1940

North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
Indian Fantasy, 1914

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C.
8 works online

Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts

Allen Art Museum at Oberlin College, Ohio
Self-Portrait as a Draughtsman, drawing

Berkeley Art Museum + Pacific Film Archive, California
Cascade of Devotion - Mexico

Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Maine (Zoomable)
After the Storm, Vinalhaven, 1938-39

Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Maine (Zoomable)
Still Life: Peaches and One Pomegranate, graphite, 1927

Brooklyn Museum, New York City NEW!

Brooklyn Museum/Luce Center for American Art, New York City
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Cape Ann Historical Museum, Gloucester, Massachusetts
Rocks, Dogtown, 1930s

Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Landscape, New Mexico
Military

Colby College Museum of Art, Maine
Brilliant Autumn, Landscape #28, 1930

Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Berlin Abstraction

Crocker Art Museum, California
Fisherman's Family

Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas
A new museum scheduled to open in 2009
Hall of the Mountain King, ca.1908-09

Currier Gallery of Art, New Hampshire
2 works online

Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art at the University of Oklahoma
Shell and Sea, Anemones, Gloucester

Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts

Harwood Museum of Art, Taos, New Mexico
Rio Grande River, New Mexico, 1919

Joslyn Art Museum, Nebraska
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Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri
Backwaters Up Millinocket Way, 1939-40

Marsden Hartley in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database

Maier Museum of Art at Randolph-Macon Woman's College, Virginia
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Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York
Waterfall, Morse Pond

Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
The Iron Cross, 1915

Palmer Museum of Art at Pennsylvania State University
New Mexico Landscape, ca.1920-23

Philadelphia Museum of Art
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8 works by Marsden Hartley online

Portland Museum of Art, Maine
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Portland Museum of Art, Maine
Click thumbnail #6 for Surf on Reef

Portland Museum of Art, Maine
Kinsman Falls, 1930

Ringling Museum of Art, Florida
Shell

Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California
Still Life, ca.1929-30

Seattle Art Museum

Sheldon Art Gallery, Lincoln, Nebraska
6 paintings online

Marsden Hartley at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.

Tacoma Art Museum, Washington
A couple of images from a 2005 exhibition

Terra Foundation for American Art, Chicago
New Mexico Landscape, 1918
Painting No. 50, 1914-15

The Newark Museum, New Jersey
Still Life - Calla Lilies, 1920s

University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City NEW!
E, 1915

Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Connecticut
Military

Walker Art Center, Minnesota

Weisman Art Museum at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
Still Life, 1912 (click "next" a couple of times)

Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg, Pennsylvania
4 works online

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
Painting, Number 5, 1914-15

Smithsonian Institution Art Inventories
List of works nationwide from two sources: the Inventory of American Paintings Executed before 1914 and the Inventory of American Sculpture (only a few percent of listings have an accompanying image)

Pictures from Image Archives:

Marsden Hartley in the Artchive

Marsden Hartley at CGFA

California State University WorldImages Database

El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)

Marsden Hartley at The Athenaeum
10 works online

University of Michigan Fine Art Slides
Chanties to the North

University of Michigan SILS Art Image Browser

USC Annenberg School for Communication

Other Web Sites:

ArtsNet Minnesota
Portrait, ca.1914-15

ArtsNet Minnesota
Storm Clouds, Maine, 1906-07

Cleophas and His Own: A North Atlantic Tragedy, by Marsden Hartley
Website for a film inspired by Hartley's prose poem

Repository of Abstract Art
New Mexico Recollections, No.12, 1922-23

Articles:

Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Marsden Hartley
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Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.

Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia

Art + Auction Magazine
Painting No. 3, 1913

Artcyclopedia
"The Return of the Native"

Resource Library Magazine
Marsden Hartley: American Modern

Resource Library Magazine

Resource Library Magazine
Marsden Hartley at the Weatherspoon Art Gallery

The New York Observer
Article by Hilton Kramer: Marsden Hartley Was One of a Kind, Poet and Painter

The New York Observer
Article by Hilton Kramer: Praising Marsden Hartley, Great American Painter

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Somehow a Past: The Autobiography of Marsden Hartley

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Seeking the Spiritual: The Paintings of Marsden Hartley

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