Artist
Marsden Hartley (American, 1877–1943)American, 1877–1943
CultureAmerican
Titles
- New Mexico
Date1919
Place depictedNew Mexico, United States
MediumPastel on paperboard
DimensionsSheet: 18 x 28 in. (45.7 x 71.1 cm)
Frame: 28 1/2 × 37 5/8 × 1 3/4 in. (72.4 × 95.6 × 4.5 cm)
Frame: 28 1/2 × 37 5/8 × 1 3/4 in. (72.4 × 95.6 × 4.5 cm)
Credit LineThe Alice C. Simkins Collection, gift of Alice C. Simkins and museum purchase funded by the John R. Eckel, Jr. Foundation
Object number2016.310
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In 1918 Marsden
Hartley joined the budding artists’ colony in Taos, New Mexico. Over the
following year he created a series of drawings in pastel, a chalky crayon he
found was ideally suited to the arid terrain. He wrote his friend and mentor
Alfred Stieglitz: “It is the only way I can get a line on the qualities [of New
Mexico]. It is a very important and typical medium for this country which has
such wonderful dry quality of color, and such hardness and brilliance.”
ProvenanceThe artist; given to Margaret Pinch and her husband, Torkil Noval, 1930; given to their daughter, Alice Noval and her husband, William McMahon; given to their son, Michael McMahon; [Linda Hyman Fine Arts, New York]; The Alice C. Simkins Collection, San Antonio, November 20, 1995; to MFAH, 2016.
Exhibition History"Marsden Hartley: American Modern," McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX, April 11–June 18, 2000.
"The Modern West: American Landscapes, 1890-1950," The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, October 29, 2006–January 28, 2007; traveled to Los Angeles County Museum of Art, March 4–June 3, 2007.
“American Modern: Works from the Collection of Alice C. Simkins,” The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, April 15–July 19, 2015.
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