Following their first meeting, in 1909, Alfred Stieglitz immediately offered Marsden Hartley an exhibition at his gallery "291," where the most avant-garde European and American artists made their American debuts. The show consisted of thirty-three landscapes of Maine, the artist's home state, including a series of fifteen paintings entitled Songs of Autumn; Landscape Number 25 likely belongs to that group. In this painting Hartley emulates the tight neo-Impressionist brushwork of the nineteenth-century Italian painter Giovanni Segantini, who he said was "the only artist who has ever put a mountain spirit on canvas."
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Title:Landscape No. 25
Artist:Marsden Hartley (American, Lewiston, Maine 1877–1943 Ellsworth, Maine)
Date:ca. 1908–9
Medium:Oil on commercially prepared paperboard (academy board)
Dimensions:12 × 12 in. (30.5 × 30.5 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1949
Accession Number:49.70.48
Inscription: Signed (lower center): Marsden Hartley
the artist (to Stieglitz); Alfred Stieglitz, New York (possibly by 1912–d. 1946; his estate, 1946–49; gift to MMA)
New York. Photo-Secession Galleries. "An Exhibition of Paintings in Oil by Mr. Marsden Hartley of Maine," May 8–18,1909, no catalogue [possibly one of checklist nos. 8–22 "Songs of Autumn"].
New York. 291. "The Younger American Painters," March 9–21, 1910, no catalogue [possibly this work].
New York. 291. "Exhibition of Recent Paintings and Drawings by Marsden Hartley," February 7–26, 1912, no catalogue [possibly this work].
New York. An American Place. "Beginnings and Landmarks: "291," 1905–1917," October 27–December 27, 1937, no. 56 (as "Autumn Landscape, Maine," 1909) [possibly this work].
Art Institute of Chicago. "Alfred Stieglitz: His Photographs and His Collection," February 2–29, 1948, no catalogue (checklist no. 19).
Museum of Modern Art, New York. "From the Alfred Stieglitz Collection: An Extended Loan from the Metropolitan Museum of Art," May 22–August 12, 1951, no catalogue (checklist no. E.L.51.662; loan extended to June 9, 1958).
Rochester, N. Y. George Eastman House. "Photo-Secession: Photography as a Fine Art," October 15, 1960–January 15, 1961, not in catalogue.
Bronxville, N. Y. Sarah Lawrence College Art Gallery. "Personal Places: American Landscapes, 1905–1930," February 16–April 24, 1988, unnumbered cat. (p. 71).
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Stieglitz and His Artists: Matisse to O'Keeffe," October 13, 2011–January 2, 2012, no. 96.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art [The Met Breuer]. "Marsden Hartley's Maine," March 15–June 18, 2017, unnumbered cat. (fig. 27).
Waterville, Me. Colby College Museum of Art. "Marsden Hartley's Maine," July 8–November 12, 2017, unnumbered cat.
"Unphotographic Paint: The Texture of Impressionism." Camera Work no. 28 (October 1909), p. 20 [possibly this work].
Dorothy Norman. Alfred Stieglitz: An American Seer. New York, 1973, fig. 38, dates it 1909.
Mary Delahoyd. Personal Places: American Landscapes, 1905–1930. Exh. cat., Sarah Lawrence College Art Gallery. Bronxville, N.Y., 1988, pp. 28, 71.
Bruce Robertson. Marsden Hartley. New York, 1995, pp. 30–31, 34, ill. (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. 132, 263, no. 96, ill. (color).
Isabelle Duvernois and Rachel Mustalish inMarsden Hartley's Maine. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 2017, pp. 153–55, 177 n. 2.
Elizabeth Finch inMarsden Hartley's Maine. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 2017, pp. 54, 166, fig. 27 (color).
Frank Henry Goodyear III in "Marsden Hartley." At First Light: Two Centuries of Maine Artists, Their Homes and Studios. New York, 2019, ill. p. 61 (color).
Marsden Hartley (American, Lewiston, Maine 1877–1943 Ellsworth, Maine)
1941–43
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