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MARSDEN HARTLEY (1877 - 1943) Dogtown.
Pen, brown ink and wash on cream wove paper, 1936. 230x305 mm; 9x12 inches. Signed and titled in pencil, lower left.
Provenance Estate of the artist (inventory #303). Consigned by the above to Nathan Halper, HCE Gallery, Provincetown, 1958-1960. Purchased from the above by private collection, New York. Swann Auction Galleries, New York, June 12, 2008, lot 62. Purchased from the above by Gerald Ferguson, Halifax, Nova Scotia. Thence by descent to current owner, New York.
Literature G. Alan Chidsey, Trustee for the Hartley Estate. Volume of Photographs of Paintings, Pastels, Drawings and Lithographs by Marsden Hartley. Washington, D.C. 1944–1960. Archives of American Art, G. Alan Chidsey Papers. E. McCausland, Elizabeth McCausland papers, 1838-1995, bulk 1920-1960, Series 6: Marsden Hartley, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, box 15, folder 16, frame 18.
Note This work is included by Gail R. Scott in the Marsden Hartley Legacy Project: Complete Paintings and Works on Paper with Bates College Museum of Art, Lewiston, Maine.
Dogtown, or Common Settlement, was a fishing settlement on Cape Ann, Massachusetts. Dogtown was abandoned in 1830, and by the time Marsden Hartley created the present drawing, the area had become forest. According to Gerald Ferguson, Hartley drew it from memory while in Nova Scotia in 1936.
