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MARSDEN HARTLEY Alpspitze.
Pencil on cream wove paper, 1933. 260x350 mm; 10 1/4x13 3/4 inches. Initialed, titled and dated in pencil, lower right recto. Ex-collection Hackett Freedman Gallery, San Francisco. Exhibited Marsden Hartley in Bavaria, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, April 1990.
From 1913-1915, Hartley (1877-1943) lived in Germany where he was influenced by German Expressionism. Cézanne's work also had a profound affect on Hartley, as evidenced by this drawing in comparison with Cézanne's many studies of Mont Sainte-Victoire. Throughout the 1920s Hartley also experimented with still lifes in the manner of Cézanne. Along with Arthur Dove, John Marin and Georgia O'Keeffe, he is seen as one of the forerunners of American modernism.
