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...deaf, weary, unkempt man of 66 died of myocarditis at the little coastal hospital in Ellsworth, Me. in September 1943, and only other painters made much note of the news that Marsden Hartley was gone. But when 111 of his 700-odd works were seen in Manhattan at the Museum of Modern Art's current Hartley exhibition, many critics began to feel that they added up to a major U.S. artistic achievement...
...early life Marsden Hartley had stumbled from school to school and manner to manner, echoing such modern European masters as Cezanne, Seurat, Rousseau, Rouault and the violent German
Bachelor of Arts. Marsden was born Edmund Hartley, of English parents who had settled in Lewiston, Me. He studied at the Cleveland Art School, Manhattan's Chase School and National School of Design, contributed to Manhattan's historic 1913 Armory Show, where modern art first drew a big U.S. public, thanks to Marcel Duchamps' cubistic Nude Descending a Staircase. Hartley was also among the handful of modernists sponsored by famed Manhattan Photographer Alfred Stieglitz...
...Died. Marsden Hartley, 66, American-grained postimpressionist painter; of a heart ailment ; in Ellsworth...
...artist who wrote this "to an imaginary friend" in 1936 might have been writing to his solitary self, for enthusiasm has never approached the leprous about Marsden Hartley. A steadfast New England eccentric, whose writings and paintings made sense first to Alfred Stieglitz in 1909, Artist Hartley sits in Maine apainting in the summer and in a Manhattan room ascribbling in the winter, with no public attention what ever. Last week at 61, weathered, heavyset, bright-eyed Marsden Hartley had his 25th one-man show at the Hudson D. Walk er Gallery and made something...