{"id":3504,"date":"2010-04-16T18:20:22","date_gmt":"2010-04-16T18:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hub-dev.bates.edu\/museum\/?page_id=3504"},"modified":"2021-10-05T15:25:06","modified_gmt":"2021-10-05T19:25:06","slug":"landscape-drawings","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/exhibitions\/y2009\/landscape-drawings\/","title":{"rendered":"Landscape Drawings from the Marsden Hartley Memorial Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Landscape Drawings from the Marsden Hartley Memorial Collection<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

June 12 – October 3, 2009<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Marsden Hartley was born in Lewiston and during his lifetime expressed the hope that a memorial collection be established in his hometown. In 1951, the heirs of the Marsden Hartley estate left a generus gift to Bates College, the last remaining effects from Corea, Maine, where Hartley lived and kept a studio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1955, Hartley\u2019s niece, Miss Norma G. Berger, made an additional gift to the collections. This gift included ninety-nine drawings from two sketchbooks and works by other artists in Hartley\u2019s personal collection. These drawings, made in ink and graphite, span several decades, cover a wide range of subjects, and comprise the largest collection of the artist\u2019s work in this medium. Many served as studies for some of the artist\u2019s most important paintings. A selection of the ninety-nine drawings in the Marsden Hartley Memorial Collection<\/em> are exhibited each summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n