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Marsden Hartley: Adventurer in the Arts<\/h2>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

September 20 \u2013 November 19, 2021<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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September 30 Zoom Lecture:
\u201cMarsden Hartley: Adventures in the Archives\u201d
by Emily Schuchardt Navratil, Ph.D., Curator, Vilcek Foundation<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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October 7 Zoom Lecture:
“Creating the Hartley Legacy Project: The How & Why, Challenges & Joys” by Gail R. Scott, Modern & Contemporary art scholar & curator<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Virtual Exhibition<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n
Gu\u00eda en Espa\u00f1ol<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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During the fall of 2021 The Bates Museum of Art will present a major exhibition of works by Lewiston, Maine, native and celebrated Modernist painter, Marsden Hartley.  Marsden Hartley: Adventurer in the Arts<\/em> will open at the Museum on September 20, 2021 and will be on view through November 19. The exhibition will travel to the Vilcek Foundation, in New York City.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The exhibition, developed in collaboration with the Vilcek Foundation, brings together over 35 paintings and drawings spanning 36 years of the American Modernist artist\u2019s career and will feature all 22 Hartley works in the Vilcek Collection, including Schiff,<\/em> 1915, a landmark painting created during Hartley\u2019s stay in Germany and which will be shown in the U.S. for the first time. Artworks from the Vilcek and Bates collections will be exhibited alongside a selection of Hartley\u2019s personal effects\u2014mementos from his travels, snapshots, and keepsakes\u2014the remarkable assemblage adds intimacy and depth, as well as a deeper understanding of his art, life, and wanderlust. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Marsden Hartley (1877\u20131943)\u2014the self-proclaimed \u201cpainter of Maine\u201d\u2014spent much of his life traveling far from his Lewiston and New England roots. As a lifelong wanderer, the places he lived and the objects he collected took on enormous significance for him. Certain locations, from Paris to Berlin, New York to New Mexico, served as touchstones throughout Hartley\u2019s life. He returned to some and never really left others; vivid recollections fill his writings, his reminiscences strengthened by the postcards and pressed flowers he kept. The exhibition and its accompanying catalogue trace Hartley\u2019s lifelong search for inspiration and invention. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

An exhibition catalogue<\/a> is available from Merrell Publishers, featuring 200 illustrations of Hartley\u2019s work and personal possessions, reproductions of previously unpublished materials, as well as essays that delve into Hartley\u2019s life and art. In his preface, Dan Mills, Director of the Museum of Art, highlights the contributions the catalogue adds to Hartley scholarship: \u201cThis selection of artworks and personal objects, coupled with the insightful essays by Bates College Museum Curator William Low, Vilcek Foundation Curator Emily Schuchardt Navratil, and Vilcek Foundation Director, Rick Kinsel, further an understanding of this important aspect of Hartley\u2019s life.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Marsden Hartley Memorial Collection at Bates College Museum of Art holds over 100 drawings, several paintings, and an incredible array of Hartley\u2019s possessions, including objects from his studio, books, souvenirs, cultural objects from his travels, and other memorabilia. The extensive collection also features 160 books from Hartley\u2019s library, original manuscripts of poems, photographs from throughout his life, and postcards from his travels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Vilcek Foundation was established in 2000 by Jan and Marica Vilcek, immigrants from the former Czechoslovakia. The mission of the foundation, to honor immigrant contributions to the United States, and more broadly, to foster appreciation of the arts and sciences, was inspired by the couple\u2019s respective careers in biomedical science and art history. The foundation awards annual prizes to immigrant biomedical scientists and artists, sponsors cultural programs, and manages the Vilcek Foundation Art Collections. To learn more, please visit vilcek.org<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Man<\/a>
Man Ray, Marsden Hartley<\/em>, 1925, Gelatin Silver print, Marsden Hartley Memorial Collection, Gift of Norma Berger, 1955.1.118<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Marsden<\/a>
Marsden Hartley, Silence of High Noon – Midsummer<\/em>, c. 1907-08, Oil on canvas, 30 1\/2 x 30 1\/2 in., 41 15\/16 x 41 1\/2 x 2 7\/8 in., Vilcek Collection, 2008.07.01<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Marsden<\/a>
Marsden Hartley, Mount Katahdin No.1<\/em>, 1939, Charcoal on paper, 12 x 14 in., Bates College Museum of Art, Museum Purchase with The Elizabeth A. Gregory, M.D. ’38 Fund, 2014.4.1<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Marsden<\/a>
Marsden Hartley, Sundown, Kezar Lake<\/em>, July 14, 1910, Oil on panel, 5 3\/4 x 9 3\/8 in., Bates College Museum of Art, Marsden Hartley Memorial Collection, Gift of Norma Berger, 1955.1.101<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Marsden<\/a>
Marsden Hartley, Portrait Arrangement No. 2<\/em>, 1912-13, Oil on canvas, 39 1\/2 x 31 3\/4 in., 54 1\/2 x 46 1\/2 x 2 1\/2 in., Vilcek Collection, 2005.09.01<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Marsden<\/a>
Marsden Hartley, Garmisch<\/em>, October 13, 1933, Graphite on paper, 10 1\/8 x 7 1\/8 in., Bates College Museum of Art, Marsden Hartley Memorial Collection, Gift of Norma Berger, 1955.1.28<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Marsden<\/a>
Marsden Hartley, Canoe (Schiff)<\/em>, 1915, Oil on canvas with painted frame, 39 3\/4 x 31 7\/8 in., 2 x 44 3\/8 x 3 in., Vilcek Collection, 2015.05.01<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Unknown<\/a>
Unknown Photographer, Marsden Hartley, Berlin<\/em>, 1922, Marsden Hartley Memorial Collection, Gift of Norma Berger, 1955.1.173.n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Marsden<\/a>
Marsden Hartley, Atlantic Window in the New England Character<\/em>, c. 1917, Oil on board, 31 5\/8 x 25 in., 38 x 31 1\/2 x 2 1\/2 in., Vilcek Collection, 2005.04.01<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Marsden<\/a>
Marsden Hartley, Mont Sainte-Victoire<\/em>, c. 1927, Oil on canvas, 20 x 24 in., 27 1\/2 x 31 3\/4 x 2 1\/2 in., Vilcek Collection, 2007.06.01<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Marsden<\/a>
Marsden Hartley, Lost Country – Petrified Sand Hills<\/em>, 1932, Oil on Masonite, 22 1\/4 x 28 1\/2 in., 32 1\/4 x 38 1\/2 in., Vilcek Collection, 2018.01.01<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Marsden<\/a>
Marsden Hartley, Roses for Seagulls that Lost their Way<\/em>, 1935-36, Oil on board, 16 x 12 in., 20 1\/2 x 16 7\/16 in., Vilcek Collection, 2013.02.01<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Marsden<\/a>
Marsden Hartley, [Preliminary drawing for Christ Held by Half-Nakes Men<\/em>], c. 1942, Graphite on paper, 11 x 8 1\/2 in., Bates College Museum of Art, Marsden Hartley Memorial Collection, Gift of Norma Berger, 1955.1.80<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Marsden<\/a>
Marsden Hartley, Intellectual Niece<\/em>, 1939-40, Oil on panel, 22 1\/2 x 12 1\/2 in., Bates College Museum of Art, Marsden Hartley Memorial Collection, Museum Purchase with major support from the Mr. and Mrs. Raymond J. Horowitz Foundation and with support from Jeffery and Hillary Becton, Wanda M. Corn ’62 and Joseph J. Corn ’60, and Patricia Hickson ’85, 2016.1.1<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Marsden<\/a>
Marsden Hartley, [Group of Five Standing Figures], 1930s, Sepia ink on paper, 11 x 8 1\/2 in., Bates College Museum of Art, Marsden Hartley Memorial Collection, Gift of Norma Berger, 1955.1.2.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"George<\/a>
George Platt Lynes, Marsden Hartley<\/em>, 1942, Bates College Museum of Art, Marsden Hartley Memorial Collection, Gift of Norma Berger, 1955.1.131.e<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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