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MARSDEN HARTLEY. Mount Katahdin, Autumn, No. 2

Mount Katahdin, Autumn, No. 2. Artist: Marsden Hartley (American, Lewiston, Maine 1877-1943 Ellsworth, Maine). Dimensions: 30 1/4 × 40 1/4 in. (76.8 × 102.2 cm). Date: 1939-40.
Beginning in the mid-1930s, Hartley, a restless artist who had previously been associated with the European avant-garde, proclaimed himself to be the "Painter from Maine." Between 1939 and 1942, he created more than eighteen bold paintings of Maine's highest peak, Mount Katahdin, a geological landmark that, as the northernmost terminus of the Appalachian Trail, resonated with both regional and national symbolism. Hartley's flat and rough-hewn depiction of form aligns his work with folk art, which audiences and critics embraced throughout the period as inherently American.

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Author: Marsden Hartley (1877-1943)

Title: Mount Katahdin, Autumn, No. 2

Caption: Mount Katahdin, Autumn, No. 2. Artist: Marsden Hartley (American, Lewiston, Maine 1877-1943 Ellsworth, Maine). Dimensions: 30 1/4 × 40 1/4 in. (76.8 × 102.2 cm). Date: 1939-40. Beginning in the mid-1930s, Hartley, a restless artist who had previously been associated with the European avant-garde, proclaimed himself to be the "Painter from Maine." Between 1939 and 1942, he created more than eighteen bold paintings of Maine's highest peak, Mount Katahdin, a geological landmark that, as the northernmost terminus of the Appalachian Trail, resonated with both regional and national symbolism. Hartley's flat and rough-hewn depiction of form aligns his work with folk art, which audiences and critics embraced throughout the period as inherently American.

Technique/material: OIL ON CANVAS

Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA

Credit: Album

Image size: 4313 × 3240 px | 40.0 MB

Print size: 36.5 × 27.4 cm | 1698.0 × 1275.6 in (300 dpi)

Keywords: CANVAS • MARSDEN HARTLEY • METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, NEW YORK, USA • MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY ART • NORTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA • OIL ON CANVAS • OIL PAINTINGS • PAINTINGS • UNITED STATES