The first comprehensive catalogue of artworks by acclaimed modernist painter Marsden Hartley is now freely available on the internet. The Marsden Hartley Legacy Project: The Complete Paintings and Works on Paper announces the highly anticipated launch of its website in association with Bates College Museum of Art. The catalogue consists of over 1600 paintings, drawings, pastels, and prints executed by Marsden Hartley (1877\u20131943). In addition to photography and full attributions for each work, the catalogue compiles detailed provenances, exhibition histories, and bibliographies. Documenting over 2200 exhibitions and 2100 publications related to Hartley, the project aims to ignite and sustain scholarship on one of America\u2019s most important modernists. The website will be updated continually as new material comes to light.<\/p>\n
In 2019, independent art historian Gail R. Scott partnered with Bates College Museum of Art to inaugurate the project. In addition to serving as curator and contributor to numerous Hartley exhibitions, Scott authored a monograph on the artist (Abbeville Press, 1988) as well as edited a volume of his essays (On Art by Marsden Hartley, Horizon Press, 1982) and his poetry (The Collected Poems of Marsden Hartley, Black Sparrow Press, 1987). \u201cGail is the leading authority on all things Hartley,\u201d says Carrie Cushman, director of Bates College Museum of Art, \u201cand we are fortunate that she recognized Bates, located in Hartley\u2019s hometown of Lewiston, Maine, as a worthy institution to host the Legacy Project.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIn the last three years of his life, Marsden Hartley schemed and dreamed about public recognition \u2014 for both his visual and his literary work,\u201d says Scott. \u201cHe wanted the paintings to be where they would be seen, the poetry and books to be in libraries and to be read. The Marsden Hartley Legacy Project is a 21st-century blossoming of that ambition, but also a rich trove to be mined.\u201d<\/p>\n
With an intuitive layout and easy-to-use filters, the Marsden Hartley Legacy Project is designed to serve a broad audience. Additional materials include a biography, an extended chronology, a list of the artist\u2019s personal library, commentaries on individual and groups of works, and substantive guest essays by renowned art historians, positioning the Project as the central resource to study, explore, and appreciate the art of Marsden Hartley.<\/p>\n
Made possible with generous funding from the Mr. and Mrs. Raymond J. Horowitz Foundation for the Arts, the Vilcek Foundation, the Wyeth Foundation for American Art, and numerous private donors, the organizers of the Marsden Hartley Legacy Project are proud to make this important body of research freely available to the public.<\/p>\n
To learn more, visit [marsdenhartleylegacy.org](https:\/\/bit.ly\/4t2EVGu?ref=hyperallergic.com).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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