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Marsden Hartley at the Amon Carter


by Manuel Mendoza 7 Jun 2008 7:51 AM

Marsden Hartley’s “Landscape, New Mexico” (ca. 1923), oil on canvas, loaned by Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution. Marsden Hartley (1877-1943) was simply one of the great modernist painters. Next Sat., June 14, a show of 38 works from his New Mexico period, Marsden Hartley and the West: The Search for an American Modernism, […]
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Marsden Hartley’s “Landscape, New Mexico” (ca. 1923), oil on canvas, loaned by Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution.

Marsden Hartley (1877-1943) was simply one of the great modernist painters. Next Sat., June 14, a show of 38 works from his New Mexico period, Marsden Hartley and the West: The Search for an American Modernism, opens at the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth and runs through Aug. 24. Admission is free.

The exhibition kicks off with a lecture at 11 a.m. June 14 by Heather Hole, assistant curator of paintings, Art of Americas at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Hole organized the show. A gallery talk also will be given by Amon Carter curator of paintings and sculptures Rebecca Lawton at 6 p.m. June 26.

A 1915 Hartley painting recently sold for a record $6.3 million.

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  • Marsden Hartley is an amazingly under recognized artist. His life and artistic growth influenced by artists such as Georgia O’Keeffe and Thomas Hart Benton. It is not very often that you get the opportunity to see more than one or two pieces of his works at a time, or to hear someone lecture about him. This Show is high on my list of must see.