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Marsden Hartley , (Jan 4, 1877–Sep 2, 1943)

Summer, Sea, Window, Red Curtain

1942
40 1/8 in. x 30 7/16 in. (101.92 cm x 77.31 cm)

Medium and Support: Oil on Masonite

Credit Line: Museum purchase

Accession Number: 1944.81

Commentary

Summer, Sea, Window, Red Curtain was painted during one of Marsden Hartley’s last full seasons in the fishing village of Corea, Maine. It is most likely the view through a window of lobsterman Forrest Young’s house where Hartley boarded from 1940 until his death in 1943. It was in a studio on the Young’s property that Hartley painted some of his strongest depictions of the rugged qualities of Maine’s landscape and people.

Returning to a compositional device he first explored in paintings of 1934–35, in Summer, Sea, Window, Red Curtain, Hartley frames the view of ocean, clouds, and island within a red-draped window and foreground table-top arrangement. Hartley paints the clouds, boat, island, and still-life elements with heightened attention to their geometry both tying them together and elevating them to energized characters within the composition. In this way, Hartley merges seascape and still life, realism and abstraction into a painting with a powerful and dynamic quality.

Exhibition List

This object was included in the following exhibitions:

HARTLEY The Museum of Modern Art , 10/24/1944 - 1/14/1945
Four Modern American painters: Peter Blume ... Stuart Davis ... Marsden Hartley The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston , 3/2/1945 - 4/1/1945
Museum's Choice Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design , 2/1/1946 - 2/28/1946
Masterpiece of the Month Connecticut College , 1/1/1950 - 1/31/1950
Amerika Schildert [America Paints] Stedelijk Museum , 6/16/1950 - 9/10/1950
Opening Exhibition of the Birmingham Museum of Art Birmingham Museum of Art , 4/8/1951 - 6/3/1951
Cape Ann Arts Festival Cape Ann Arts Festival, Gloucester High School , 7/14/1956 - 8/18/1956
Scope in Collecting [25th Anniversary Exhibition] Addison Gallery of American Art , 10/19/1956 - 12/24/1956
Loan to Paul Creative Arts Center, University of New Hampshire University Art Galleries, University of New Hampshire , 10/7/1960 - 11/13/1960
Art in American History Addison Gallery of American Art , 7/22/1962 - 10/28/1962
Swain School of Design Summer Exhibition Crapo Gallery, Swain School of Art , 8/4/1963 - 8/11/1963
New England Art from New England Museums Brockton Art Museum, Fuller Memorial , 1/15/1969 - 3/2/1969
The Works Addison Gallery of American Art , 11/7/1969 - 2/22/1970
The American Still Life 1879-1979 Addison Gallery of American Art , 10/26/1979 - 12/12/1979
Marsden Hartley Whitney Museum of American Art , 3/4/1980 - 3/15/1981
The Split-Up: The Beginning of a New Art in America Addison Gallery of American Art , 3/13/1981 - 4/12/1981
Masterworks of American Art from the Addison Gallery Collection Hirschl and Adler Galleries, Inc. , 10/6/1981 - 10/31/1981
The New England Eye: Master American Paintings from New England School, College Williams College Museum of Art , 9/9/1983 - 11/13/1983
Raymond Saunders: Addison Delectations Addison Gallery of American Art , 2/19/1988 - 3/20/1988
American Masterworks Addison Gallery of American Art , 10/5/1990 - 12/16/1990
American Abstraction at the Addison Addison Gallery of American Art , 4/18/1991 - 7/31/1991
American Abstraction from the Addison Gallery of American Art American Federation of Arts , 2/27/1993 - 12/4/1994
Andover Alumni Collectors Addison Gallery of American Art , 4/29/1995 - 7/30/1995
Masterworks from the Permanent Collection Addison Gallery of American Art , 9/5/1995 - 12/17/1995
Addison Gallery of American Art: 65 Years Addison Gallery of American Art , 4/13/1996 - 7/31/1996
Modern Art and America: Alfred Stieglitz and His New York Galleries National Gallery of Art , 1/28/2001 - 4/22/2001
Marsden Hartley Wadsworth Atheneum , 1/17/2003 - 1/11/2004
Eye on the Collection: Copley to Hopper Addison Gallery of American Art , 12/21/2004 - 6/12/2005
Eye on the Collection: West to Hopper Addison Gallery of American Art , 6/17/2005 - 10/16/2005
Painting Summer in New England Peabody Essex Museum , 4/18/2006 - 9/4/2006
Coming of Age: American Art, 1850s to 1950s American Federation of Arts , 9/9/2006 - 9/7/2009
So Long, Farewell Addison Gallery of American Art , 4/7/2007 - 7/31/2007
Inside, Outside, Upstairs, Downstairs: The Addison Anew Addison Gallery of American Art , 9/7/2010 - 3/27/2011
Heaven and Earth Addison Gallery of American Art , 2/7/2015 - 4/5/2015
Searching for the Real Addison Gallery of American Art , 5/30/2015 - 7/31/2015
Selections from the Permanent Collection Addison Gallery of American Art , 9/12/2015 - 3/13/2016
Selections from the Permanent Collection Addison Gallery of American Art , 4/30/2016 - 7/31/2016
Eye on the Collection Addison Gallery of American Art , 9/1/2016 - 3/19/2017
Marsden Hartley's Maine The Met Breuer , 3/14/2017 - 11/12/2017
In and Out of Place Addison Gallery of American Art , 2/16/2019 - 7/31/2019
Marsden Hartley Louisiana Museum of Modern Art , 9/19/2019 - 1/12/2020
Learning to Look: The Addison at 90 Addison Gallery of American Art , 5/8/2021 - 2/6/2022

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