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Portrait Arrangement No. 2 Marsden Hartley (1877-1943)
- DATE
- 1912-13
- MEDIUM
- Oil on canvas
- DIMENSIONS
- H- 39 1/2 x W- 31 3/4 in. (100.3 x 80.6 cm)
- COUNTRY OF BIRTH
- United States
- CREDIT LINE
- The Jan T. and Marica Vilcek Collection, Promised gift to The Vilcek Foundation
- ACCESSION NUMBER
- 2005.09.01
- COPYRIGHT INFO
- © The Vilcek Foundation
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PROVENANCE
- The Artist;
Alfred Stieglitz;
Estate of Alfred Stieglitz;
[E. Weyhe Gallery, New York, NY];
[Babcock Galleries, New York, NY];
Private Collection;
[Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, New York, NY];
[Owings-Dewey Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM];
- The Artist;
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REFERENCES
- Alfred Stieglitz Collection list. Downtown Gallery Records, Series 2: Artist Files, A-Z: Hartley, Marsden, 1931-1936, Reel 5548, Frame 550. Archives of American Art,Smithsonian Institution.
Elizabeth McCausland Papers, Marsden Hartley Catalogue Raisonné: Oils, [circa 1944-1964]. Box 13, Folder 49, Frames 18-21, ill. Frames 18, 21. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Elizabeth McCausland Papers, Marsden Hartley Catalogue Raisonné: Still Life Oils, [circa 1944-1964]. Box 15, Folder 20, Frames 11-12. In a letter to Hans Huth at the AIC, McCausland notes that she has located labels on the backs of Hartley works which correspond to a rare annotated checklist of the Forum exhibition, which was not included in the catalogue. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Levin, Gail. “Wassily Kandinsky and the American Avant-Garde, 1912-1950,” PhD dissertation, Rutgers University, 1976, pp. xi, 99-100, ill. fig. 35.
Levin, Gail. "Hidden Symbolism in Marsden Hartley's Military Pictures,” Arts Magazine 54, no. 2 (October 1979), pp. 155-158, ill. p. 155, fig. 3.
Levin, Gail. "Marsden Hartley and Mysticism,” Arts Magazine 60, no. 3 (November 1985), pp. 16- 17, ill. p. 16, fig. 4.
Harnsberger, R. Scott. Four Artists of the Stieglitz Circle: A Sourcebook on Arthur Dove, Marsden Hartley, John Marin and Max Weber. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002, p. 143.
Westheider, Ortrud. "An American in Munich and Berlin: Marsden Hartley and the Blaue Reiter in Modern Life,” in Barbara Haskell and Ortrud Westheider, Edward Hopper and His Time. Munich: Hirmer Verlag, 2009,p. 41, ill. p. 41, fig. no. 5.
Agee, William C. and Lewis Kachur. Masterpieces of American Modernism: From the Vilcek Collection. London: Merrell, 2013, pp. 52-53, 235, 241, 242, 266, ill. pp. 53, 54-55.
Pochoda, Elizabeth. “Freedom and the abstract truth: Jan and Marica Vilcek’s collection of American modernist art,” The Magazine Antiques (May/June 2013), ill. p. 101.
O’Hern, John. “Modern Manor,” American Fine Art Magazine, September/October 2013, ill. p. 54.
Evans, Dorinda. "An American Prelude to the Abstract Portrait," in This is a Portrait if I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today. Brunswick, ME: Bowdoin College Museum of Art, 2016, pp. 26-28, ill. p. 26, fig. 9.
- Alfred Stieglitz Collection list. Downtown Gallery Records, Series 2: Artist Files, A-Z: Hartley, Marsden, 1931-1936, Reel 5548, Frame 550. Archives of American Art,Smithsonian Institution.
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EXHIBITIONS
- New York. Anderson Galleries. The Forum Exhibition of Modern American Painters. March 13-25, 1916, no. 53.
Probably: Chicago. Arts Club Chicago. Exhibition of Modern American Paintings. February 10-24,1928, cat no. 34 or 35.
New York. Martha Jackson Gallery. Marsden Hartley - The Berlin Period, 1913-1915: Abstract Oils and Drawings. January 3-31, 1955, cat. no. 8.
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art. Synchromism and American Color Abstraction, 1910-1925. (January 24-March 26, 1978); Houston. The Museum of Fine Arts (April 20-June 18, 1978); Des Moines. Des Moines Art Center (July 6-September 3, 1978); San Francisco. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (September 22-November 19, 1978); Syracuse. Everson Museum of Art (December 15, 1978-January 28, 1979); Columbus, Ohio. Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts (February 15-March 24, 1979), pp. 43, 140, ill. np., pl. no. 144.
Hartford, Connecticut. The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art. Marsden Hartley (January 17-April 20, 2003); Washington, D.C. Phillips Collection (June 7- September 7, 2003); Kansas City. Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (October 11, 2003-January 11, 2004); p. 61, 291 cat. no. 9, ill. p. 61, pl. 9.
New York. The Vilcek Foundation. With Color. May 16, 2013.
Berlin. Neue Nationalgalerie. Marsden Hartley: The German Paintings, 1913-1915 (April 3-June 29, 2014); Los Angeles. Los Angeles County Museum of Art (August 3-November 30, 2014).
Tulsa. Philbrook Museum of Art. From New York to New Mexico: Masterworks of American Modernism from the Vilcek Foundation Collection (February 8-May 3, 2015); Phoenix. Phoenix Art Museum (June 5-September 6, 2015); Santa Fe. Georgia O'Keeffe Museum (September 25, 2015-January 10, 2016).
Humlebaek, Denmark. Louisiana Museum of Modern Art. Marsden Hartley. September 19, 2019-January 19, 2020.
- New York. Anderson Galleries. The Forum Exhibition of Modern American Painters. March 13-25, 1916, no. 53.
