Movement
Marsden Hartley (American, 1877–1943)1913
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Archival matte paper, 189 g/m² (10.3 mil), sourced from Japan, printed with multicolor water-based inkjet so every brushstroke stays crisp. Framed prints arrive ready to hang in a .75″ ayous-wood frame with an acrylite front. Sized to standard frames by cropping, never stretching — at most about 3% comes off one edge, which isn’t noticeable on most pieces, and we only offer a size when it stays that small.
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About this work
Unlike many other American artists, Marsden Hartley was more drawn to German Expressionism than to French modernism, and executed this painting in Berlin. Made on the eve of World War I, Movement possesses a turbulent energy that sparks associations with both the vibrancy of modern Berlin and movements of music. Like the Russian Expressionist painter Vasily Kandinsky, Hartley sought to make his work more like music, which he admired for its nonnarrative nature and its potential to be purely spiritual or separate from material reality.
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Original size
- 119.5 × 119 cm (47 × 46 7/8 in.)
Museum record · 1 owner · 6 exhibitions
Provenance
- Alfred Stieglitz Collection, New York City; bequeathed through Georgia O'Keeffe to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1949.
Exhibitions
- New York City, Anderson Galleries, The Forum Exhibition of Modern American Painters, Mar. 13–25, 1916.
- Philadelphia Museum of Art, History of an American, Alfred Stieglitz: ‘291’ and After, Summer 1944.
- New York City, Museum of Modern Art, Alfred Stieglitz: His Collection, June 10–Aug. 31, 1947.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Alfred Stieglitz: His Photographs and His Collection, Art Institute of Chicago, Feb. 7–Mar. 1948.
- New York City, Whitney Museum of American Art, Marsden Hartley, Mar. 4–May 1980; Art Institute of Chicago, June 10–Aug. 3, 1980, Fort Worth, Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, Sept. 5–Oct. 26, 1980, University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, Nov. 12, 1980–Jan. 4, 1981.
- Paris, Musee d'Orsay, Alfred Stieglitz and His Circle: Modernity in New York (1905 – 1930), Oct. 18, 2004–Jan. 16, 2005; Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro d'Arte reina Sofia, Feb. 10–May 17, 2005 (Paris only).
