Stories about "Marsden Hartley"
Quest to solve the mysteries of Marsden Hartley’s artwork receives $100K boost

Friday, February 18, 2022 12:05 pm

The enormous task of locating and documenting more than 1,600 works by Lewiston-born artist Marsden Hartley received a major gift from the Vilcek Foundation, a family foundation with a long history of collecting Hartley works.

Installation of upcoming Marsden Hartley exhibition.Included in the photographs: Gerald Walsh, art preparator (he is an independent contractor) vacuums dust bunnies from Hartley’s 1942 painting “Christ” (oil on masonite); education curator Anthony Shostak; curator Bill Low; and Corie Audette, assistant collections manager and museum registrar.
13 nuggets from a gem of an exhibition about Lewiston-born modernist artist Marsden Hartley

Friday, September 24, 2021 11:25 am

Personal effects and mementoes, alongside a powerful showcase of artwork, gives nuanced meaning to Marsden Hartley: Adventurer in the Arts, now at the Bates College Museum of Art.

Man Ray (American 1890-1976)[Marsden Hartley], 1925Gelatin silver printGift of Norma Berger1955.1.118
Fueled by $192,000 grant, Bates museum to publish catalog of art by Marsden Hartley

Monday, September 16, 2019 2:17 pm

Creation has begun of the first-ever comprehensive, publicly accessible guide to all known artworks of Marsden Hartley, a pioneer of American Modernism, thanks to a major grant to Bates College from a foundation dedicated to the arts.

$100K Bates art museum grant to benefit Marsden Hartley collection

Thursday, June 21, 2018 9:22 am

The Bates College Museum of Art’s purchase of a painting by 20th-century artist Marsden Hartley is one of the outcomes of a $100,000 grant to the museum.

Campus events (and some others): June 8–Aug. 4, 2018

Monday, June 4, 2018 12:59 pm

These are public events at Bates College for summer 2018. Except for Bates Dance Festival mainstage performances, admission is free.

Museum of Art shows images of, not by, renowned painter Hartley

Thursday, June 4, 2015 11:07 am

The exhibition "The Painter of Maine: Photographs of Marsden Hartley" opens with a reception at the Bates College Museum of Art at 7 p.m. Friday, June 12.

Students offer gallery talks

Monday, May 3, 2010 4:14 pm

Students Heidi Jenkins '10 and Jee Kim '12 offer three gallery talks, all at 1:15 p.m. Tuesdays, during the month of May. Printmaking is discussed on May 4, the current Senior Exhibition on May 11 and artist Marsden Hartley on May 18. All talks are open to the public and will be held in the upper level of the Bates Museum of Art, Olin Arts Center, 75 Russell St. For more information, please call 207-786-6158.

NEH grant supports preservation of Hartley materials at museum

Thursday, February 25, 2010 12:07 pm

The Bates College Museum of Art has received a $6,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support the preservation of the college's Marsden Hartley Memorial Collection, an assortment of artworks, personal effects and other materials relating to the Maine native and pioneering American modernist painter.

Art critic Carl Little discusses Bernard Langlais’ wood constructions

Monday, September 21, 2009 3:42 pm

Renowned Maine art critic Carl Little discusses Bernard Langlais' abstract wood constructions, currently featured in a Bates College Museum of Art exhibition, in lecture in the Olin Arts Center.

Hartley, Langlais, 'Body Mapping' shows slated for summer at museum

Tuesday, June 9, 2009 10:12 am

Opening June 12 at the Bates College Museum of Art are exhibitions of work by two prominent artists with Maine connections, and a third exhibition revealing a compelling response to HIV/AIDS.

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