Marsden Hartley "Portrait"

From: Crocker Art Museum Limited Edition: 14 Exhibition: Marsden Hartley: American Modern Material: Printed vinyl Dimensions: 30" x 71" (76cm x 180cm) Hanging Hardware Included   Description Marsden Hartley (1877-1943) was a member of a vibrant group of artists working around Alfred Stieglitz in New York City. This circle also included the painters Arthur Dove, John Marin, and Georgia O'Keeffe, and the photographer Paul Strand. These artists forged a new direction in modern art, breaking with the conventions of traditional visual arts. It was Stieglitz who funded Hartley's first trip to Europe in 1912. Studying in Paris with Gertrude Stein, Hartley found he was not impressed with the French, as he bluntly put it, "If there was ever a more ridiculous lot of males as a clan it is these Frenchmen." He was much more impressed with the Germans, and found an affinity with German culture, spirituality, and art by the likes of Kandinsky and Klee. Perhaps this affinity had less to do with art,