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Birth
1877 (Lewiston, Maine)
Death
1943 (Ellsworth, Maine)
Lived/Active
Maine
Self portrait - Marsden Hartley - Self Portrait
Often Known For
mod sea-land imagery, still-life painting
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Categories of Interest
New York Armory Show of 1913
Fauves/Fauvism
San Francisco Panama-Pacific Exhibition 1915
Taos Pre 1940
Modernism
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Born in Lewiston, Maine, Marsden Hartley became one of the most famous early modernist artists of twentieth-century American art, known for landscapes, still lifes, and some portraits. His painting showed a focus on monumental shapes, especially clouds and landscape forms, and his unique style has been described by critic Sadakichi Hartmann as "an extreme and up-to-date impressionism" and "emerging modernism that evolved through Impressionism". (Gerdts 291)
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