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Title:Landscape, New Mexico
Artist:Marsden Hartley (American, Lewiston, Maine 1877–1943 Ellsworth, Maine)
Date:1919–20
Medium:Oil on canvas
Dimensions:27 1/8 × 34 7/8 in. (68.9 × 88.6 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1949
Accession Number:49.70.46
the artist (to Stieglitz); Alfred Stieglitz, New York (by 1937–d. 1946; his estate, 1946–49; gift to MMA)
University of Oklahoma, Norman. 1919, no catalogue (as "New Mexican Hills with Arroyo," 1919) [possibly this work].
Philadelphia. Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. "Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings Showing the Later Tendencies in Art," April 16–May 15, 1921, no. 255 (as "Landscape: New Mexico") [possibly this work].
Museum of Modern Art, New York. "Alfred Stieglitz Exhibition: His Collection," June 10–August 31, 1947, no catalogue (checklist no. 41).
Art Institute of Chicago. "Alfred Stieglitz: His Photographs and His Collection," February 2–29, 1948, no catalogue (checklist no. 31).
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "20th Century Painters: A Special Exhibition of Oils, Water Colors and Drawings Selected from the Collections of American Art in the Metropolitan Museum," June 16–October 29, 1950, unnum. brochure (p. 6).
Roslyn Harbor, N. Y. Nassau County Museum of Art. "Landscape of America: The Hudson River School to Abstract Expressionism," November 10, 1991–February 9, 1992, unnumbered cat. (p. 48).
Kleinburg, Ontario. McMichael Canadian Art Collection. "The Informing Spirit: Art of the American Southwest and West Coast Canada, 1925–1945," January 30–April 17, 1994, unnumbered cat. (pl. 15).
Vancouver Art Gallery. "The Informing Spirit: Art of the American Southwest and West Coast Canada, 1925–1945," June 15–September 5, 1994, unnumbered cat.
Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center. "The Informing Spirit: Art of the American Southwest and West Coast Canada, 1925–1945," October 1, 1994–January 8, 1995, unnumbered cat.
Charleston, S. C. Gibbes Museum of Art. "The Informing Spirit: Art of the American Southwest and West Coast Canada, 1925–1945," January 26–March 26, 1995, unnumbered cat.
Santa Fe. Georgia O'Keeffe Museum. "Marsden Hartley and the West: The Search for an American Modernism," January 25–May 11, 2008, unnumbered cat. (fig. 52).
Fort Worth. Amon Carter Museum. "Marsden Hartley and the West: The Search for an American Modernism," June 6–September 7, 2008, unnumbered cat.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Stieglitz and His Artists: Matisse to O'Keeffe," October 13, 2011–January 2, 2012, no. 102.
Albany. New York State Museum. "Imaging the American West: Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," April 9–July 17, 2016, not in brochure.
"Acquired by the Metropolitan." New York Times (July 10, 1949), p. X6, ill.
Constance Schwartz. Landscape of America: The Hudson River School to Abstract Expressionism. Exh. cat., Nassau County Museum of Art. Roslyn Harbor, N.Y., 1991, pp. 45, 75, ill. p. 48.
Heather Hole. "'America as Landscape': Marsden Hartley and New Mexico, 1918–1924." PhD diss., Princeton University, 2005, p. 288.
Heather Hole. Marsden Hartley and the West: The Search for an American Modernism. Exh. cat., Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe. New Haven, 2007, p. 34, fig. 52 (color).
Lisa Mintz Messinger inStieglitz and His Artists: Matisse to O'Keeffe. The Alfred Stieglitz Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Ed. Lisa Mintz Messinger. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 2011, pp. 138, 264, no. 102, ill. (color).
Holland Cotter. "High Aims for Art's Sake." New York Times (October 14, 2011), p. C28, ill.
Marsden Hartley (American, Lewiston, Maine 1877–1943 Ellsworth, Maine)
1941–43
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