Marsden Hartley

Exhibited by Rosenberg & Co.

Material Oil on board

Dimensions 55.9 × 71.1 cm

Place of Creation Maine, United States

Price Available upon inquiry

Status Vetted

About the Work

In the mid-nineteen thirties, he returned to Maine, where, for the last decade of his life, he lived and worked around Portland, West Brooksville, and Bangor. After losing two close friends, the Mason brothers - Nova Scotia fishermen who drowned at sea - he was bereft and looking to paint the people and landscapes that made him feel whole and grounded. He painted loggers and fishermen, mountains, seascapes and portraits.

Among them was this object portrait of “Ski Signs”, a pair of boots and a ski cap against a snow-covered mountainous landscape presented as a Cézannesque-like still-life on a red cloth ground evocative of the lost Mason brothers. Paul Rosenberg & Co. represented Hartley in New York after 1942. This important work by Hartley passed through the gallery and was included in Paintings by Marsten Hartley in 1955.

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Provenance

Acquired from the artist
William Macbeth Gallery, New York
Estate of the artist, Inv. #182
Paul Rosenberg & Co., New York
John and Dorothy Rood Collection, Minneapolis
Estate of Jacob and Bronka Weintraub, New York
Private collection, New York