ALPHA OMEGA ARTS NEWS
By
TAHLIB
"Men who are highly imaginative, create by feeling
what they do not or cannot know. It is the sixth sense of the creator."
~ MARSDEN HARTLEY
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| "Three Friends" (1941) by Marsden Hartley. Indiana University Museum of Art |
By
TAHLIB
Marsden Hartley is the July
INSPIRE ME! Artist of month. He was one of a circle of American modernist painters championed by Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O'Keefe, and Gertrude Stein, and he was also a
Gay. Hartley is most well known for hius landscapes, but it is his approach to religious themes that captured my attention since first spotting his work at the
Indiana University Art Museum (
See above). "I am not a "book of the month" artist," Marsden Hartley (1877-1943) wrote his sister at the end of his life, and I do not paint pretty pictures; but when I am no longer here my name will register forever in the history of American art." Born in Maine in 1877, he traveled the world painting but returned to Maine again in his later life, passing away in 1943. A retrospective of his work ended in
Germany on June 29 but travels to the
Los Angeles County Museum of Art in August.
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| Marsden Hartley (American, 1877-1943) |
