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BERTRAM HARTMAN (1882-1960)
Laying the Pilings, West Side Pier, New York. Oil on board. 380x550 mm; 14 7/8x 22 inches. Signed and dated in oil, lower left recto. 1930.
Provenance: private collection, New York.
Hartman was born to German-American parents in Kansas. After studying at the Art Institute of Chicago, he studied and was married, in Munich before settling in Greenwich Village among a burgeoning artist community including William (1887-1966) and Marguerite Zorach (1887-1968) and John Marin (1870-1953). Hartman worked as a commercial artist and designer and worked as a muralist for the Treasury Section of Fine Arts during the Great Depression.
