MARSDEN HARTLEY (1877-1943)
MARSDEN HARTLEY (1877-1943)
MARSDEN HARTLEY (1877-1943)
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MARSDEN HARTLEY (1877-1943)

Cynical Blue, Jovial Brown, Dogtown

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MARSDEN HARTLEY (1877-1943)
Cynical Blue, Jovial Brown, Dogtown
signed, dated and inscribed with title '1931./Marsden Hartley.' (on the reverse)
oil on board
18 x 24 in. (45.7 x 61 cm.)
Painted in 1931.
Provenance
The artist.
Adelaide Kuntz, Bronxville, New York.
William Macbeth Gallery, New York.
Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, Inc., New York.
Jon and Barbara Landau, New York, acquired from the above.
Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, Inc., New York.
Tom and Gill LiPuma, New York, acquired from the above, by 1985.
Private collection, New Jersey.
Private collection, New York.
Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, Inc., New York.
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 2006.
Literature
R.S. Harnsberger, Four Artists of the Stieglitz Circle: A Sourcebook on Arthur Dove, Marsden Hartley, John Marin, and Max Weber, Westport, Connecticut, 2002, p. 135.
Exhibited
New York, Downtown Gallery, Marsden Hartley: Pictures of New England by a New Englander, April 26-May 15, 1932, no. 10.
New York, Macbeth Gallery, Marsden Hartley (1877-1943): Paintings and Drawings, November 26-December 15, 1945, no. 10.
Oberlin, Ohio, Oberlin College, Allen Memorial Museum of Art, Five Expressionists, 1946, p. 24, no. 17.
Omaha, Nebraska, Joslyn Art Museum, The Thirties Decade: American Artists and their European Contemporaries, October 10-November 28, 1971, p. 64, no. 81.
New York, Grace Borgenicht Gallery, The Gloucester Years, February 6-March 4, 1982, p. 15, illustrated.
New York, Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, Inc., Marsden Hartley (1877-1943): Paintings and Drawings, March 6-April 27, 1985, n.p., no. 19, illustrated.
New York, Gary Snyder Fine Art, Modern American Masterworks, 2002.
New York, ACA Galleries, Continuum: 130th Anniversary of the Art Students League of New York, October 15-November 26, 2005.
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, on loan, 2013-2014.

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