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Marsden Hartley (artist)

Nationality
American
Birth/Death
1877–1943

About

Living as an expatriate in Berlin prompted Marsden Hartley to reflect upon his native country and his own identity as an American. In the summer of 1914, he began a series of paintings exploring what he later called “the idea of America.”

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Marsden Hartley (January 4, 1877 – September 2, 1943) was an American Modernist painter, poet, and essayist. Hartley developed his painting abilities by observing Cubist artists in Paris and Berlin.