Who was Marsden Hartley?
Marsden Hartley (1877–1943) was a pioneering modernist painter best known for bringing European influences into American art. In 1912, Hartley traveled to Paris, where he met members of the avant-garde circle surrounding Gertrude Stein and was introduced to the bold colour and abstraction of Matisse and Cézanne. Over a four-decade career, he evolved from delicate, mystical landscapes to bold, symbolic abstractions that helped define early 20th-century American modernism.
