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Works from the Marsden Hartley Memorial Collection<\/h2>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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June 9 \u2013 October 7, 2017<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Drawn from the museum\u2019s renowned Marsden Hartley Memorial Collection, as well as select loaned works, the exhibition At Home and Abroad<\/em> explores aspects of Hartley\u2019s life and artwork, from his childhood in Lewiston, Maine and some of the influences from his youth, to his time spent in Europe, particularly his visits to Germany and France, between 1912 and 1930. These were important years for Hartley, during which he absorbed the influences of numerous artists, artistic movements and expatriates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in Lewiston, Maine, in 1877, Edmund (Marsden) Hartley is considered to be one of America\u2019s most important modernist painters. Although he left Lewiston in his teenage years and lived an itinerant life, Lewiston was integral to the artist’s identity, manifesting itself in his travels, art, and writing. Maine remained a touchstone for Hartley, who declared himself \u201cthe painter from Maine\u201d shortly before his death in Ellsworth, Maine, in 1943.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1951, the heirs of the Marsden Hartley estate left as a gift to Bates College, in compliance with his wish, the last remaining effects from Corea, Maine, where he lived and kept a studio. In 1955, Hartley\u2019s niece, Norma Berger, made an additional gift of the artist\u2019s work to the College. This gift included ninety-nine drawings from two sketchbooks, considered the largest collection of the artist’s work in this medium. The entire collection, over 400 objects, includes early oil sketches by Hartley, works by other artists in Hartley\u2019s personal collection, Coptic, Mexican and Asian textiles, a variety of cultural objects such as pre-Columbian pieces, Luristan bronzes and antiquities, photographs, the artist\u2019s personal library, and ephemera. The variety of the collection is part of what makes it significant, allowing comparisons among artworks, textiles, objects, and written works and providing opportunities for insight into this important American modernist. The Marsden Hartley Memorial Collection has enormous value to the artistic and cultural heritage of the State of Maine and the collective body of American Art.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At Home and Abroad<\/em> is the result of first steps in a project supported by the Henry Luce Foundation, which is generously supporting efforts to digitize the Marsden Hartley Memorial Collection and to create a publicly accessible online database of it. This exhibition is also supported by a grant from the Coby Foundation, providing funds for conservation of the fragile textiles that Hartley collected and treasured.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Unknown artist, Beach in Cannes, France [Marsden Hartley]<\/em>, 1925, gelatin silver print , 3 1\/2 x 5 9\/16 in., Bates College Museum of Art Marsden Hartley Memorial Collection, Gift of Norma Berger, 1955.1.173.s<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Marsden Hartley, Pallid Spring<\/em>, 1909, oil on panel, 5 5\/16 x 9 3\/8 in., Marsden Hartley Memorial Collection, Gift of Norma Berger, 1955.1.100<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Unknown Artist, On the banks of the Androscoggin River at Lewiston, Maine, my birth place<\/em>, n.d., photograph, 2 5\/8 x 4 3\/8 in., Marsden Hartley Memorial Collection, Gift of Norma Berger, 1955.1.173.g<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Marsden Hartley, [Landscape with Wooden Road with Gate], 1927, graphite on beige paper, 11 1\/2 x 8 3\/4 in., Bates College Museum of Art, Marsden Hartley Memorial Collection, Gift of Norma Berger, 1955.1.19<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Marsden Hartley, Alpspitze<\/em>, October 28, 1933, sepia ink on beige paper, 7 1\/8 x 10 1\/4 in., Bates College Museum of Art, Marsden Hartley Memorial Collection, Gift of Norma Berger, 1955.1.31<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Unknown Artist (Teotihuacan), figurine fragment, ca. 400 BCE \u2013 ca. 650 CE, earthenware, 4 x 5 x 2 1\/2 in., Bates College Museum of Art, Marsden Hartley Memorial Collection, Gift of Marsden Hartley Estate, 1951.2.98<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Unknown Artist, Edmund Hartley, n.d., photograph, 10 x 8 in., Marsden Hartley Memorial Collection, Gift of Norma Berger, 1955.1.171<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Marsden Hartley, Intellectual Niece<\/em>, 1939-40, oil on academy board, 21 3\/4 x 12 1\/8 in., Bates College Museum of Art 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, Walter K. Giles and Laura M. Giles P’18, and Patricia Hickson ’85, Marsden Hartley Memorial Collection, 2016.1.1<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Marsden Hartley, [Study for Prayer on Park Avenue]<\/em>, ca. 1942, graphite pencil on white paper, 10 3\/4 x 8 1\/4 in., Bates College Museum of Art, Marsden Hartley Memorial Collection, Gift of Norma Berger, 1955.1.48<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Alfredo Valente, Marsden Hartley<\/em>, 1942, gelatin silver print, 13 1\/2 x 10 1\/2 in., Bates College Museum of Art, Marsden Hartley Memorial Collection, Gift of Norma Berger, 1955.1.179<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Unknown Artist [4th-7th century CE Early Byzantine Egypt], Eight pointed star with meander patterned center and grape leaf border<\/em>, 9 3\/4 x 9 3\/4 in., Bates College Museum of Art, Marsden Hartley Memorial Collection, Gift of the Marsden Hartley Estate, 1951.2.75.n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Marsden Hartley, Garmisch<\/em>, October 13, 1933, graphite on beige 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<\/figure>\n\n\n
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