Spotlight 2015-16 Marsden Hartley Portrait Arrangement, 1914 Marsden Hartley Key Dates 1877 Edmund Hartley born in Lewiston, Maine 1906 Adopts stepmother’s maiden name, Marsden 1909 First Exhibition at Alfred Steiglitz’s 291 Gallery 1912 Second Exhibition at 291 is a success Finances a year in Paris Meets Karl von Freyburg through KvF’s cousin, sculptor Arnold Rönnebeck Meets Robert Delaunay 1913 Visits Berlin for three weeks Meets Wassily Kandinsky and Gabriele Münter Primarily in Berlin with short returns to New York until end of 1915 1914 Third solo show at 291 Marsden Hartley Portrait by Alfred Steiglitz Father dies in August Karl von Freyburg dies on October 7 Hartley in New York Hartley with fellow artists, (left to right) Hartley’s art dealer Alfred Stieglitz Jo Davidson, Edward Steichen, Arthur B. Carles, at 291 Gallery where Hartley had John Marin; back: Marsden Hartley, Laurence his first exhibitions Fellows, c. 1911, Bates College Museum of Art Berlin Paintings Spotlight 2015–16 Marsden Hartley, Portrait Arrangement, 1914, Oil on canvas, Museum purchase, McNay Art Museum. Berlin Paintings Marsden Hartley, Forms Abstracted, 1913, oil on canvas, Whitney Museum of Art. Berlin Paintings Marsden Hartley, Arrangement – Hieroglyphics (Painting No. 2), 1914, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Berlin Paintings Marsden Hartley, Berlin Ante War, 1914, Columbus Museum of Art. Berlin Paintings Marsden Hartley, Painting No. 4 (A Black Horse), 1914, Philadelphia Museum of Art. Berlin Paintings Marsden Hartley, Portrait of a German Officer, 1914, Metropolitan Museum of Art. Influences: Franz Marc, Wassily Kandinsky, and The Blue Rider Franz Marc, The Dream, 1912. Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza. Wassily Kandinsky, The Blue Rider, 1903. Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle, Zurich Franz Marc, The Blue Horse I, 1911, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus – Munich Influences: Orphism and Synchromism Robert Delaunay, Tall Portuguese Woman, 1916. Wax on Morgan Russell, Synchromy in Orange, To Form, canvas. Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain. 1913–14. Oil on canvas. Albright Knox Gallery. Influences: German Expressionism Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Portrait of Hans Frisch, Gabriele Münter, Still Life, Red, ca. 1907. McNay Art Museum. 1909. McNay Art Museum. Influences: Folk Art Bavarian Reverse Glass Painting Navajo Rug Mexican Retablo Influences: Military Regalia and Parades Portrait of Karl von Freyburg German Military Parade Legacy: Robert Indiana, Hartley Elegies Feeling a kinship with Hartley, pop artist Robert Indiana creates a series of 18 paintings that closely interprets the Berlin paintings in Indiana’s hard-edge style. Robert Indiana, KvF I (Hartley Elegy), 1989–1994. Oil on canvas. Collection of the Morgan Art Foundation. Spotlight 2015-16 Marsden Hartley Portrait Arrangement, 1914 For more information about Spotlight, visit mcnayart.org/spotlight..