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Marsden Hartley

Marsden Hartley

Marsden Hartley (1877-1943)
New Mexico Recollections, No. 12,
1922-23
29 1/4 x 39 3/4 inches
Oil on canvas

Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas at Austin

Marsden Hartley moved to Taos, New Mexico in 1918. He was interested in Spanish mysticism and the Penitente sect, influences of which are evident in some of his paintings. In the 1920s Hartley announced his conversion to objectivism, stating he could "hardly bear the sound of the words 'expressionism,' 'emotionalism,' 'personality' . . . because they imply the wish to express personal life and I prefer to have no personal life. Personal art is for me a matter of spiritual indelicacy."

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