Marsden Hartley
Rising Wave, Indian Point, Georgetown, Maine
1937-1938
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Marsden Hartley
Rising Wave, Indian Point, Georgetown, Maine
1937-1938
Physical Qualities
Oil on paperboard, Framed: 32 x 38 x 3 3/8 in. (81.3 x 96.5 x 8.6 cm) Sight: 21 1/2 x 27 3/8 in. (54.6 x 69.5 cm)
Credit Line
Edward Joseph Gallagher III Memorial Collection
Object Number
1958.41
Here, Marsden Hartley rendered coastal waves crashing against sea boulders. The scene evokes the name of the Penobscot tribe, which can translate to “where the white rocks open out” in the Abenaki language spoken by Indigenous people in Quebec and northeastern New England. Indian Point is the tip of a peninsula marking the entrance to the Sagadahoc Bay near Georgetown, Maine. This region, which has more than 80 miles of shoreline, was the territory of the Penobscot people, who lived along the Penobscot River to the north. Though decimated by war and by illnesses introduced by European colonizers, and forced to give up most of their land by the 1830s, the Penobscot Nation today protects and manages 90,000 acres of trust land in Maine.
Cincinnati Modern Art Society, "Marsden Hartley, Stuart Davis", October 24 - November 24, 1941, cat. p. 10
The Institute of Modern Art, Boston, "Four Modern American Painters", March 2 - April 1, 1945, no. 32
Four Arts Society, January 1946, Palm Beach, Florida
Institute of Modern Art, November 1946
Baltimore Museum of Art, "Man and His Years", October 19 - November 21, 1954, no. 111
American Federation of Art Traveling Exhibition, "Marsden Hartley", circulated to Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute, San Antonio, TX; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Amerika Haus, Berlin; Stadt und Lenbachgalerie, Munich; Amerika Haus, Stuttgart; American Embassy, London, December 1960 - August 1961
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, "1930s Exhibition", October 14 - December 1, 1968.
Baltimore Museum of Art, "Edward Joseph Gallagher III Memorial Collection", May 11 - June 22, 1969, ill. p. 25.
Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, Hagerstown, MD, "Gallagher Collection", January 4-31, 1970
Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, "Two Decades of American Painting", June 10 - August 5, 1979, circulated to Kunsthaus Zurich and Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, through December 1979
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, "Marsden Hartley", March 4 - May 25, 1980, no. 80, circulated to Art Institute of Chicago, Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, TX; University of California at Berkeley Museum; Portland (OR) Art Museum, through March 8, 1981
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, "The Mystic North; Symbolist Landscape Painting in Northern Europe and North America, 1890-1940", no. 48, January 14 - March 11, 1984, circulated to Cincinnati Art Museum, through May 15, 1984
Birmingham Museum of Art, "The Expressionist Landscape", September 11 - November 4, 1987; circulated to: IBM Gallery of Science and Art, November 24, 1987 to January 30, 1988; Everson Museum of Art, February 14 - March 27, 1988; Akron Art Museum, April 9 - June 5, 1988; Vancouver Art Gallery, June 30 - August 21, 1988
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, "The American Century: Art and Culture: 1900-2000", April 22 - August 22, 1999
Portland Museum of Art, "Maine Moderns: The Stieglitz Circle in Sequinland, 1900- 1950," June 4 - September 11, 2011.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, "American Modernism from the Collection," June 25, 2003-
Katy Rothkopf, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Cezanne and the Transformed Landscape," 22 May - 25 August 2002.
Katy Rothkopf, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Expressions of Nature," March 10 - September 22, 2019.
The Institute of Modern Art, Boston, "Four Modern American Painters", March 2 - April 1, 1945, no. 32
Four Arts Society, January 1946, Palm Beach, Florida
Institute of Modern Art, November 1946
Baltimore Museum of Art, "Man and His Years", October 19 - November 21, 1954, no. 111
American Federation of Art Traveling Exhibition, "Marsden Hartley", circulated to Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute, San Antonio, TX; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Amerika Haus, Berlin; Stadt und Lenbachgalerie, Munich; Amerika Haus, Stuttgart; American Embassy, London, December 1960 - August 1961
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, "1930s Exhibition", October 14 - December 1, 1968.
Baltimore Museum of Art, "Edward Joseph Gallagher III Memorial Collection", May 11 - June 22, 1969, ill. p. 25.
Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, Hagerstown, MD, "Gallagher Collection", January 4-31, 1970
Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, "Two Decades of American Painting", June 10 - August 5, 1979, circulated to Kunsthaus Zurich and Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, through December 1979
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, "Marsden Hartley", March 4 - May 25, 1980, no. 80, circulated to Art Institute of Chicago, Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, TX; University of California at Berkeley Museum; Portland (OR) Art Museum, through March 8, 1981
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, "The Mystic North; Symbolist Landscape Painting in Northern Europe and North America, 1890-1940", no. 48, January 14 - March 11, 1984, circulated to Cincinnati Art Museum, through May 15, 1984
Birmingham Museum of Art, "The Expressionist Landscape", September 11 - November 4, 1987; circulated to: IBM Gallery of Science and Art, November 24, 1987 to January 30, 1988; Everson Museum of Art, February 14 - March 27, 1988; Akron Art Museum, April 9 - June 5, 1988; Vancouver Art Gallery, June 30 - August 21, 1988
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, "The American Century: Art and Culture: 1900-2000", April 22 - August 22, 1999
Portland Museum of Art, "Maine Moderns: The Stieglitz Circle in Sequinland, 1900- 1950," June 4 - September 11, 2011.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, "American Modernism from the Collection," June 25, 2003-
Katy Rothkopf, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Cezanne and the Transformed Landscape," 22 May - 25 August 2002.
Katy Rothkopf, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Expressions of Nature," March 10 - September 22, 2019.
"Baltimore Museum of Art News", December 1952 - January 1953, p. 5, ill. p. 2
"A Picture Book", 1955, ill. p. 79
Elizabeth McCausland, "Marsden Hartley", New York: American Federation of Art, 1960
"Art News Bulletin", American Embassy USI, London, ill. cover, July - August 1961
Peter Selz and Dore Ashton, "2 Jahrzehnte amerikanische Malerei 1920-1940 (Two Decades of American Painting), Dusseldorf: Stadtische Kunsthalle, 1979
Barbara Haskell, "Marsden Hartley", New York: Whitney Museum of American Art in association with New York University Press, 1980, no. 80, p. 219, pl. 100 (p.175)
Roald Nasgaard, "The Mystic North: Symbolist Landscape Painting in Northern Europe and North America, 1890-1940", Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario in association with the University of Toronto Press, 1984, no. 48, pp. 213-214, ill.
Birmingham Museum of Art, "The Expressionist Landscape: North American Modernist Painting, 1920-1947", University of Washington Press, Seattle and London, 1987, page 151.
Baltimore Museum of Art. The Edward Joseph Gallagher III Memorial Collection. [Baltimore, MD]: Baltimore Museum of Art, [1964], page 25.
Libby Bischof and Susan Danly, "Maine Moderns: Art in Seguinland, 1900-1940," New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2011, ill. p. 89 (pl. 9).
Inscribed: FACE: LR, 'M.H.'. VERSO: (label), 'Rising Wave/Indian Point/Georgetown (sic)/Maine; 1937-38/Marsden Hartley' (in artist's hand)
On View: Cone Wing, Northwest 2
