Marsden Hartley
Flowers
c.1935
Scroll
Marsden Hartley
Flowers
c.1935
Physical Qualities
Oil on board, Framed: 30 × 24 1/8 × 1 3/4 in. (76.2 × 61.3 × 4.4 cm.)
Sight: 23 1/4 × 17 1/8 in. (59.1 × 43.5 cm.)
Credit Line
Contemporary Art Fund
Object Number
1947.320
The shard-like flowers in this painting, silhouetted against a dark background, captured the boldness and fragility of life and love for artist Marsden Hartley. He wrote in 1941, “I want the whole body, the whole flesh, in painting.” From 1937 until his death, Hartley spent part of the year in Georgetown, Maine, where he painted still lifes featuring flowers from the garden of his friends, Gaston and Isabel Lachaise. Hartley enhanced the angularity of these flowers by lightly carving into the surface of the wet paint.
Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1947
Baltimore Museum of Art, "Still Life Fruit and Flowers", March 7 - April 4, 1961, no. 39, p. 29
Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, Hagerstown, MD, Still Lifes: Paintings on Loan from the Baltimore Museum of Art", November 4-27, 1966.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, "American Modernism from the Collection," June 25, 2003-
Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, Hagerstown, MD, Still Lifes: Paintings on Loan from the Baltimore Museum of Art", November 4-27, 1966.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, "American Modernism from the Collection," June 25, 2003-
Baltimore Museum of Art News 11, no. 3, December 1947, pp. 4-6
