This image cannot be enlarged, viewed at full screen, or downloaded.
Artwork Details
Use your arrow keys to navigate the tabs below, and your tab key to choose an item
Title:Banquet in Silence
Artist:Marsden Hartley (American, Lewiston, Maine 1877–1943 Ellsworth, Maine)
Date:1935–36
Medium:Oil on canvas board
Dimensions:15 7/8 × 20 in. (40.3 × 50.8 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1949
Object Number:49.92.1
Inscription: Signed, dated, and inscribed (verso): Banquet in Silence / Marsden Hartley / 1935–6
the artist (to O'Keeffe); Georgia O'Keeffe, New York (by 1937–49; in exchange for return of "evolutionary" material by other artists, her gift as part of the Alfred Stieglitz Collection to MMA)
New York. An American Place. "Marsden Hartley: First Exhibition in Four Years All Pictures Shown for the First Time Publicly," March 22–April 14, 1936 [possibly one of nos. 12–15 as "Tropic fantasies"].
Philadelphia Museum of Art. "History of an American, Alfred Stieglitz: '291' and After, Selections from the Stieglitz Collection," July 1–November 1, 1944, no. 250.
Museum of Modern Art, New York. "Alfred Stieglitz Exhibition: His Collection," June 10–August 31, 1947, no catalogue (checklist no. 47).
Art Institute of Chicago. "Alfred Stieglitz: His Photographs and His Collection," February 2–29, 1948, no catalogue.
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).
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Three Centuries of American Painting," April 9–October 17, 1965, unnum. checklist.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "American Still Life: 1915–1950," February 1, 1995–January 28, 1996, no catalogue (on view from June 29, 1995).
Richmond, Va. Marsh Art Gallery. "Still Life: The Object in American Art, 1915–1995. Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," January 3–February 28, 1997, no. 12.
Little Rock. Arkansas Arts Center. "Still Life: The Object in American Art, 1915–1995. Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," March 28–May 23, 1997, no. 12.
Newport Beach, Calif. Newport Harbor Art Museum. "Still Life: The Object in American Art, 1915–1995. Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," June 20–August 15, 1997, no. 12.
Tulsa, Okla. Philbrook Museum of Art. "Still Life: The Object in American Art, 1915–1995. Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," September 12–November 7, 1997, no. 12.
Palm Beach, Fla. The Society of the Four Arts. "Still Life: The Object in American Art, 1915–1995. Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," January 9–February 8, 1998, no. 12.
Salina, Kansas. Salina Art Center. "Still Life: The Object in American Art, 1915–1995. Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," March 6–May 3, 1998, no. 12.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Stieglitz and His Artists: Matisse to O'Keeffe," October 13, 2011–January 2, 2012, no. 106.
Art Institute of Chicago. "Art and Appetite: American Painting, Culture, and Cuisine," November 12, 2013–January 27, 2014, no. 26 (dated 1935–38).
Fort Worth. Amon Carter Museum of American Art. "Art and Appetite: American Painting, Culture, and Cuisine," February 22–May 18, 2014, no. 26.
Eleanor Jewett. "An International Art Exhibition is Outstanding Show." Chicago Sunday Tribune (February 22, 1948), part 7, p. 4.
Henry Geldzahler. American Painting in the Twentieth Century. New York, 1965, p. 61, ill.
Lowery Stokes Sims inStill Life: The Object in American Art, 1915-1995. Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Exh. cat., Marsh Art Gallery, Richmond, Va. New York, 1996, pp. 48–50, 168, no. 12, ill. p. 51 (color).
"Philbrook Museum Presents 'Still Life'." Henryetta Daily Free-Lance (October 16, 1997), p. 3.
Lowery Stokes Sims and Sabine Rewald. "Still Life: The Object in American Art." American Art Review 9 (September–October 1997), ill. p. 139 (color).
John Brandenburg. "Still Lifes Convey Emotion Without Motion." Daily Oklahoman (September 26, 1997), p. 7.
"'Still Life' the Focus of State Museum Exhibition." Post-Star (May 28, 1998), p. 13.
"American Still Lifes at NYS Museum." Northeast (June 1998), p. 44, ill.
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. 14, 141, 265, 313 n. 31, no. 106, ill. (color), fig. 18 (installation photo of Exh. New York 1965).
Sarah Kelly Oehler inArt and Appetite: American Painting, Culture, and Cuisine. Ed. Judith A. Barter. Exh. cat., Art Institute of Chicago. Chicago, 2013, pp. 189, 224, no. 26, fig. 5 (color).
Judith H. Dobrzynski. "Food for Thought." Wall Street Journal (December 24, 2013), p. D5.
Laura Beach. "All About Eats." Magazine Antiques 180 (November/December 2013), p. 83, fig. 11.
Marsden Hartley (American, Lewiston, Maine 1877–1943 Ellsworth, Maine)
1917
Resources for Research
The Met's Libraries and Research Centers provide unparalleled resources for research and welcome an international community of students and scholars.
The Met Collection API is where all makers, creators, researchers, and dreamers can connect to the most up-to-date data and public domain images for The Met collection. Open Access data and public domain images are available for unrestricted commercial and noncommercial use without permission or fee.
Feedback
We continue to research and examine historical and cultural context for objects in The Met collection. If you have comments or questions about this object record, please complete and submit this form. The Museum looks forward to receiving your comments.
The Met's engagement with art from 1890 to today includes the acquisition and exhibition of works in a range of media, spanning movements in modernism to contemporary practices from across the globe.
