MARSDEN HARTLEY (1877 1943) Nova Scotia Fish Houses

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MARSDEN HARTLEY (1877 - 1943)
Nova Scotia Fish Houses.

Pencil on wove paper, 1936. 226x305 mm; 8⅞x12 inches. Signed and titled lower right.

Provenance
Estate of the artist (inventory #391).
Consigned by the above to Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, circa 1956.
Private collection, New Hampshire, until 1986.
Barridoff Galleries, South Portland, Maine, May 31, 1986, lot 61.
Purchased from the above by Gerald Ferguson, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Thence by descent to current owner, New York.

Exhibited
"Marsden Hartley and Nova Scotia," Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery, Halifax, October 22 - November 23, 1987; Art Gallery of Ontario, January 16 - March 13, 1988 (illustrated; label).

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, Inv. #391.
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 24, frame 4.

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.

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Additional Details

According to Gerald Ferguson in Marsden Hartley and Nova Scotia, Marsden Hartley did not draw Nova Scotia Fish Houses from life and this particular view of the houses does not exist. However, it is noted that the Leander Knickle house, Blue Rocks, is included in the background of the composition. In his letter to Adelaide, Hartley recalled how he first came to Blue Rocks, a fishing village, in October 1935. He stayed with the Knickle family, in their "dear little house" on the edge of an inlet until moving on to Eastern Points.