New England Still Life
Artist:
Marsden Hartley
(American, 1877 - 1943)
Date: ca. 1928-1929
Place made:Paris, France, Europe
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
25 x 31 1/2 in. (63.5 x 80 cm)
Credit Line: San Antonio Museum of Art, Purchased with funds provided by the Painting and Sculpture Council, Mrs. Ferdinand P. Herff, and Endowment Funds
Object number: 76.14
Label Text
Although its title references the artist Marsden Hartley’s upbringing in Maine, this painting was made in Paris, where the artist lived during one of his extended European residencies. The bold, simplified forms of the objects on the table, as well as their overall flatness, reflect Hartley’s interest in the spatial experiments of Modernism, including the still lives of earlier French artists such as Paul Cézanne. The fruit, plants and fish capture the viewer’s attention both through Hartley’s characteristically strong colors and bold contours, as well as by being set against the high contrast of the deep red wall behind them.
Perhaps more than almost any other American Modernist, Hartley was a truly international figure. His work united his interest both in the American scene—whether the mountains or fisher-folk of his native New England or the Native American influences of the Southwest—with the international, geometric possibilities of abstraction.
(William Keyse Rudolph, 2014)
Perhaps more than almost any other American Modernist, Hartley was a truly international figure. His work united his interest both in the American scene—whether the mountains or fisher-folk of his native New England or the Native American influences of the Southwest—with the international, geometric possibilities of abstraction.
(William Keyse Rudolph, 2014)
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