Collection Online as of September 22, 2023

(American, 1877–1943)

Oil on canvas

Framed: 101.6 x 120.7 x 7.6 cm (40 x 47 1/2 x 3 in.); Unframed: 80 x 99.7 cm (31 1/2 x 39 1/4 in.)

Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund with additional support from the Gill and Tommy LiPuma Fund 2004.89

Location

226A American Modern

Fun Fact

Hartley studied briefly at the Cleveland School (now Institute) of Art in 1898.

Description

Although Hartley visited New Mexico during 1917–18, this landscape was painted a few years later when he lived temporarily in Berlin, Germany. This distance in time and place seems to have spurred the artist’s imagination: with its agitated paint application, turbulent composition, and somber palette, New Mexico Recollection evokes an emotional state more than it records a particular site.

Provenance

Alfred Steiglitz, New York; Huntington Collection, Portland, Maine; Jon Landau; Tommy and Gill LiPuma, New York.

Citations

Kootz, Samuel M. New Frontiers in American Painting. New York: Hastings House, 1943. Mentioned: p. 25-34; Reproduced: no. 38

Salander, Lawrence B. Marsden Hartley (1877-1943) Paintings and Drawings. New York: Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, Inc., 1988. Mentioned: p. 10; Reproduced: p. 23, no. 13

Hartley, Marsden, Peter Selz, and Hackett-Freedman Gallery, Inc. Marsden Hartley: Observation and Intuition. San Francisco: Hackett-Freedman Gallery, 2001. Reproduced: p. 11

Agee, William C., and Bruce Weber. High Notes of American Modernism: Selections from the Tommy and Gill LiPuma Collection: November 14-December 31, 2002. New York: Berry-Hill Galleries, Inc, 2002. Mentioned: p. 89, Reproduced: p. 59

Harnsberger, R. Scott. Four Artists of the Stieglitz Circle: A Sourcebook on Arthur Dove, Marsden Hartley, John Marin, and Max Weber. Westport: Greenwood Press, 2002. Mentioned: p. 141

Glueck, Grace. "Art Review: Serendipity's Reward: A Spirited Collection of Four Disparate Americans." The New York Times, Friday, November 29, 2002. Mentioned: p. E29

Cleveland Museum of Art Annual Report, 2004. Mentioned: p. 16, 22-23

Hole, Heather. Marsden Hartley and the West: the Search for an American Modernism. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2007. Mentioned: p. 104; Reproduced: p. 103, fig.90

Adams, Henry. What's American about American Art? A Gallery Tour in the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2008. Reproduced: p. 13, no. 16

Sullivan, Edward J. Making the Americas Modern: Hemispheric Art, 1910-1960. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2018. Mentioned: p. 65; Reproduced: p. 66

Exhibition history

Marsden Hartley and Walt Kuhn: The Landscapes. Salander O'Reilly Galleries, New York (January 5-February 27, 1988).

American Modernism and the German Avant-Garde. Hollis Taggart Galleries, New York (May 20-July 1, 1998).

Marsden Hartley: Observation and Intuition. Hackett-Freedman Gallery, San Francisco (February 1-March 31, 2001).

High Notes of American Modernism: Selections from the Tommy and Gill LiPuma Collection. Berry-Hill Galleries, Inc., New York (November 14-December 31, 2002).

Modern American Masters: Highlights from the Gill and Tommy LiPuma Collections. Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland (March 28-July14, 2004).

The Search for an American Modernism: Marsden Hartley and New Mexico. Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, NM (organizer) (January 25-May 11, 2008); Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, TX (June 14-August 24, 2008).

The Cleveland Museum of Art

New Mexico Recollection

Marsden Hartley

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