Marsden Hartley was born on January 4, l877, in Lewiston, Maine, to English immigrant parents. In 1893 he moved with his family to Ohio, where he studied at the Cleveland School of Art.
Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin; Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
History 2009 The Darker Side of Light: Arts of Privacy, 1850-1900, Hammer Museum, Los
Cervantes, Puebla de Los Angeles en el año de mil novecientos treinta y tres, 1935
1995 Reconsidering the Object of Art: 1965-1975, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los
Records, accession number 960015, Research Library, The Getty Research Institute, Los
A close friend of Whistler, George Washington Vanderbilt II commissioned this full-length portrait in 1897 to hang in Biltmore House, his enormous château on 125,000 acres of wilderness near Asheville, North Carolina. The artist quickly responded, „I could not ask for a more sympathetic subject than yourself and therefore am greatly pleased at the prospect of painting your portrait!“
1980, no. 255, repro. 1981 American Portraiture in the Grand Manner: 1720-1920, Los
Records, accession number 2012.M.54, Research Library, Getty Research Institute, Los
Records, accession number 960015, Research Library, The Getty Research Institute, Los
LAYNE [underlined in graphite] [by unknown hand in graphite: ✓] FOUNDATION OF LOS
James Meyer, curator of art, 1945–1974, National Gallery of Art, speaks with Alexandra Truitt, independent photo editor and picture researcher, and manager, Estate of Anne Truitt.
unlike much minimalist art, and while most of her peers were based in New York or Los
