Word: marsden
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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French cubism and Italian futurism gave Italian-born Joseph Stella the organization for his Coney Island, with its warring scene of roller coasters and jumbled humanity. German expressionism gave the discipline to Marsden Hartley's strong Maine landscapes fishermen and lumberjacks. Georgia O'Keeffe, now 77 and living in New Mexico, depicts with barebone simplicity her lyric view of "my country−terrible winds and wonderful emptiness." Even more sharp-focused was Charles Demuth's I saw the Figure 5 in Gold, with its exulation of typography and kaleidoscopic street imagery, is now revered as an icon...
...with her second great love-American folk art-to show "a kinship and a source" for contemporary art. She came back from cash-and-carry raids into the countryside with her Hupmobile limousine loaded down with Americana. Then she showed it alongside her Yasuo Kuni-yoshis, Elie Nadelmans and Marsden Hartleys. The folk art sold itself and helped sell modern work. In fact, Mrs. Halpert's first sale was pure Americana curio-a chalk mantel stop, used to hold down lace mantel coverings...
...mask of anguish in Marsden Hartley's The Lost Felice hides a different sort of grief. It is a symbol of womanhood mourning her drowned sons. The 20th century's passion for abstraction makes any representational figure seem accessibly human, but the grieving mother in Hartley's picture resembles a woman only in the way that an eerie echo resembles a voice. The intentional distortions of the 1939 picture ironically complete the cycle begun with the unintentional distortions of the 1670 picture. Perhaps fittingly, the decline of portraiture ends without a portrait...
There were two other withdrawals. A rather Hartleyesque still life, signed M. H., was blacklisted by a New York expert who knows Marsden Hartley. Then a bumbling Franz Kline was yanked because its owner could not be reached to defend...
ALFRED MAURER and MARSDEN HARTLEY-Babcock, 805 Madison Ave. at 68th. Both of these painters were American adventurers who traveled abroad and eventually returned to the U.S. Maurer became a recluse in his father's house and killed himself in 1932; Hartley wrote poetry and wished to be remembered as "the painter from Maine," where he was born and where, in 1943, he died. As these 22 still lifes show, both forged a highly personal style: Maurer a sensuous, solidly constructed cubism; Hartley a rough-hewn primitive expressionism. Through...