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Marsden Hartley

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Pastel Then, Pastel Now

by Stephen Truax December 14, 2019January 15, 2021

The Swiss artist Nicolas Party is both the subject and curator of Pastel, an extraordinary exhibition examining the under-appreciated, fugitive medium and its history.

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The International Modernisms of World War I

Avatar photo by Natalie Haddad December 9, 2017December 8, 2017

Ephemera provides an important history lesson, especially for a war that is disappearing from America’s collective memory, but the most affective works in World War I and the Visual Arts are those that convey the pathos of the war experience.

John Sloan, "Helen at the Easel" (1947), casein tempera underpaint, and oil-varnish glaze on panel (some Shiva Ponsol colors used), gift of the John Sloan Trust
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The Open-Ended Narratives of a Small Museum

Avatar photo by Thomas Micchelli June 24, 2017June 26, 2017

What if Abstract Expressionism never happened?

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Marsden Hartley’s Maine: His Own Private Germany

by Christopher Lyon April 22, 2017April 21, 2017

Besides examining in-depth both the early and late Maine periods, Marsden Hartley’s Maine includes a fine essay on materials and techniques, based on careful examination of a dozen works, which shows a surprising continuity in composition and methods across Hartley’s career.

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American Artists’ Fraught Responses to the First World War

by Anne Blood January 12, 2017January 17, 2017

From critical to patriotic and everything in between, a vast exhibition at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts displays the full range of US artists’ reactions to World War I.

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On the Outside Looking In: Mardsen Hartley’s Poetry

by Douglas Messerli January 24, 2016January 27, 2016

Marsden Hartley represents a rather contradictory figure in American art and literature. Both poet and painter—he wrote poetry during the mornings throughout most of his life and painted in the afternoons—he survived through the latter, but actively sought out literary attention and wrote about literature as a “business.”

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Artists of the Dark: “Night Visions: Nocturnes in American Art, 1860–1960”

by Natasha Seaman August 16, 2015August 20, 2015

Nighttime darkness compresses space and alters colors, making ordinary places both more terrifying and more freeing, changing the social dynamic of those who walk in them.

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The Triumph of Revisionism: The Whitney’s American Century

Avatar photo by Thomas Micchelli May 2, 2015May 6, 2015

With America Is Hard to See, the exhibition inaugurating its luminous new Renzo Piano building, the Whitney has reclaimed its role among the city’s museums as the engine of the new.

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From Calder to Kruger, the New Whitney Museum’s First Show

by Jillian Steinhauer April 23, 2015April 30, 2015

The inaugural exhibition at the new Whitney Museum is not perfect, but it is pretty damn good.

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7 Contemporary Takes on Marsden Hartley

Avatar photo by Melissa Stern February 20, 2015February 21, 2015

OK, full disclosure: I have never been a huge Marsden Hartley fan.

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Fisk University’s Georgia O’Keeffe Collection Goes to Court

Avatar photo by Hrag Vartanian August 10, 2010August 9, 2010

The future of Fisk University’s priceless art collection donated years ago by artist Georgia O’Keeffe, and known as The Stieglitz Collection, may be decided at a trial set to begin tomorrow after five years of legal wrangling.

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