Saturday, January 15, 2005

Marsden Hartley Chronological Bio


Hello Fellow Docents

Here is a Marsden Hartley biography in chronological form ... as
Patricia said he moved around a lot (every year!).

This is based on "Somehow a Past" ( Hartley's autobiography) and
"Marsden Hartley" (by Bruce Robertson) that I found in the King County
Library system.

Any/all errors are mine. (Please let me know).

Marsden Hartley:

1877 - (age: age: 00) - Edmund Hartley born on 4 January to Thomas and
Eliza Hartley of Lewiston, Maine, formerly of Stalybridge, England.

1885 - (age: age: 08) - Hartley's mother dies on 4 March in Lewiston.
The youngest daughters are sent to stay with the oldest in Cleveland,
Ohio. Edmund stays in Auburn Maine, across the Androscoggin River from
Lewiston, with another sister, Elizabeth.

1889 - (age: age: 12) - Father marries Martha Marsden of Stalybridge
and the couple moves to Cleveland, leaving Edmund in Auburn.

1892 - (age: age: 15) - Leaves school to work in a Lewiston shoe factory.

1893 - (age: age: 16) - Joins family in Cleveland and works in a
marble quarry office.

1896 - (age: 19) - Takes art classes from John Semon, a Cleveland painter.

1898 - (age: 21) - Takes a painting trip weith Semon and loses his
quarry job. Takes a summer outdoor art class with Cullen Yates,
another Cleveland painter (and Nina Waldeck). Enters the Cleveland
School of Art in the fall.

1899 - (age: 22) - Cleveland School of Art trustee Ann Walworth grants
him a $450 per year for fiver year's study of art. Hartley moves to
New York City and studies in the school run by William Merritt Chase
(the New York School of Art).

1900 - (age: 23) - Summer in Lewiston; fall art studies in New York at
the National Academy of Design (1900-1903). (Studies with Francis C.
Jones and others).

1901 - (age: 24) - Summer at North Bridgeton, Maine, in a utopian camp
run by Portland painters Charles Fox and Curtis Perry.

1902-03 - (age: 25) - Summers in Center Lovell, Maine.

1904 - (age: 27) - Summer at North Lovell, ME. Finished with Walworth
grant and academy classes, takes a job as an extra with Proctor's
Theater Company in New York (through 1906).

1906 - (age: 29) - Takes step mom's surname, Marsden, as his middle
name. Fall: moves to Lewiston to teach painting classes.

1907 - (age: 30) - Summer in Green Acre, a spiritualist camp in Eliot,
ME. First exhibition of paintings at the Eliot home of Mrs. Ole Bull
at Green Acre. Moves to Boston.

1908 - (age: 31) - Changes his name to Marsden Hartley. Does series of
self-portrait drawings. Fall and winter: painting in North Lovell, ME.

1909 - (age: 32) - Spring: shows work to Boston painters Maurice and
Charles Prendergast, who write letters to Wiliam Glackens in New York.
Hartley takes paintings to New York where Glackens shows them to the
group, The Eight. April: Hartley meets Alfred Stieglitz and has
one-man exhibition at 291 in May. Meets art dealer N.E. Montross and
sees the work of Albert Pinkham Ryder. Montross grants Hartley $4 week
for two years. Fall: Lewiston.

1910 - (age: 33) - Hartley a member of Stieglitz's circle in New York,
and paints in North Lovell in the summer.

1911 - (age: 34) - January :hospitalized in New York with scarlet
fever; Spring: visits Baltimore. Summer: North Lovell. Fall: New York
City. (Sees Picasso's work and produces first abstraction).

1912 - (age: 35) - February: second one-man show at 291. April:
arrives in Paris. June: moves to Lee Simonson's studio at 18 Moulin de
Beurre. Meets Gertrude Stein and sees her collection. Becomes a
frequent visitor at 27 rue de Fleurus. August: introduced to the work
of Wassily Kandinsky and read Der Blaue Reiter (book) and Kandinsky's
On the Spiritual in Art (book). November: visits London, British
Museum. November: Begins "intuitive abstractions."

1913 - (age: 36) - January: leaves for Berlin for three weeks, then
Munich where he meets Kandinsky and Marc; back to Paris. February:
Included in the Armory Show in New York. April: leaves for Paris for
Berlin again, this time by way of Sindelsdorf and a visit to Franz and
Maria Marc, then Munich. In Berlin, May through November, when he
sails for New York. September: Five "intuitive abstractions" exhibited
in Erster deutscher Herbstsalon, Berlin.

1914 - (age: 37) - January: exhibits Berlin paintings at 291.
February: Buffalo, New York. March/April: returns to Berlin via London
and Paris. On 3 August World War I is declared; on 4 August father
dies; on 7 October Karl von Freyburg killed in battle.

1915 - (age: 38) - May: his step-mom Martha Marsden dies. October:
major one-man exhibition (45 paintings and some drawings) at Munchener
Graphik-Verlag, Berlin. December: sails for New York.

1916 - (age: 39) - Winter-spring: circle of Mabel Dodge in Manhattan,
and in February Hartley stays at her Croton-on-Hudson estate. March:
Participates in "The Forum Exhibition of Modern American Painters."
April: Exhibition of German Officer paintings at 291. July-October: in
Provincetown, MA, guest of John Reed, then shares a house with Charles
Demuth. November: New York City. December: Hamilton, Bermuda with
Demuth.

1917 - (age: 40) - January: First essays and poems appear in print in
The New Republic and Seven Arts. May: returns from Bermuda to
Manhattan. Summer: Lewiston, then Ogunquit, ME at Hamilton Easter
Field's art colony. Fall: back to New York, Brooklyn Heights.

1918 - (age: 41) - June-October: Taos, NM; November: Santa Fe, NM.

1919 - (age: 42) - February: visits Carl Sprinchorn in La Canada, CA.
Meets Robert McAlmon. San Francisco, then Santa Fe. November: New
York.

1920 - (age: 43) - On 4 May appointed first Secretary of the Societe
Anonyme, Inc. Summer: Gloucester, MA. October: New York. Publishes
poems in Poetry and The Little Review.

1921 - (age: 44) - Spring: Publishes Adventures in the Arts. May:
Public auction (jointly with James N Rosenberg) at Anderson Galleries.
(raises almost $4,000) July-October: Paris. November: Berlin (through
1923).

1923 - (age: 46) - Spring: Twenty-five Poems published in Paris. July:
Nude pastel studies. Fall: travels to Vienna, then Italy - Florence,
Arezzo, then spends Christmas in Rome with Maurice Sterne.

1924 - (age: 47) - Winter in new York with William Bullitt. Bank
arrangements made for the syndicate that supports Hartley through
1928. (annual stipend of $2,000) Then back to Europe. July: Paris
working in George Biddle's studio.

1925 - (age: 48) - January: Participates in a group show of American
artists at the Galerie Briant-Robetrt, Paris. August (through August
1926): Vence, France (taking a year's lease on a house).

1926 - (age: 49) - October: Chateau Canto Grihet in Aix-en-Provence;
December: Settles in Maison Maria (once a studio of Cezanne's) in
Chateau Noir forest.

1927 - (age: 50) - Paris, Berlin, and Hamburg, back to Aix-en-Provence
in May, and Paris in December.

1928 - (age: 51) - January: New York; March: Chicago, exhibition at
the Arts Club; visits Arnold Ronnebeck in Denver with William Bullitt
in Conway, NH. Early August: Georgetown, ME with Paul and Rebecca
Strand and Gaston and Isabel Lachaise. Late August: Paris (through
October 1929)

1929 - (age: 52) - April: brief visit again to Aix-en-Provence.
November: back to Paris, then Hamburg, Berlin and Dresden.

1930 - (age: 53) - On 5 March sails for New York. Lives in Brooklyn
with sisters of Alice Miriam Pinch. Summer at Sugar Hill near
Franconia, NH. November: New York, Pierpont Hotel, Brooklyn.

1931 - (age: 54) - Severely ill with bronchitis. March: receives
Guggenheim grant. Summer: Begins Dogtown series in Gloucester, MA.
December: spends Christmas in Cleveland with his sisters and their
families.

1932 - (age: 55) - March: Mexico City; April: Exhibition, "The Return
of the Native," at the Downtown Gallery in New York. April 27: Hart
Crane commits suicide. May: Cuernavaca; November: Mexico City.
November: Included in the first Whitney Biennial.

1933 - (age: 56) - April: leaves form Vera Cruz for Germany with a
stop in Amsterdam. Summer: Hamburg. September or October (through
February 1934): Garmisch-Partenkirchen. November-December: Writes
"Somehow a Past" (autobiography)

1934 - (age: 57) - Leaves Europe, never to return; for the rest of his
life, New York is his regular winter base. February: New York; summer:
Gloucester; fall: New York.

1935 - (age: 58) - January: Has to destroy 100 paintings and drawings
in storage. February: Included in the "Abstract Paints in America"
exhibition at the Whitney Museum. Summer: Bermuda. September: Blue
Rocks, Nova Scotia. November-December: lives with Mason family at
Eastern Points, Nova Scotia. December: New York.

1936 - (age: 59) - January: Employed by the WPA until May. July:
returns to Eastern Points, Nova Scotia. September: Alty and Donny
Mason killed at sea with their cousin Allan. September: Included in
the "New Horizons in American Art" exhibition at the MoMA. December:
New York.

1937 - (age: 60) - On 20 April last exhibition with Steiglitz at An
American Place. Summer: Georgetown, ME. Fall: Portland, ME.

1938 - (age: 61) - Spring: first exhibition at Hudson D. Walker
Gallery in New York City. Summer-November: Vinalhaven, ME. November:
Boston. Begins "archaic portraits."

1939 - (age: 62) - Winter: New York City; March: Exhibits first
"archaic portraits" at Hudson Walker. Summer: Portland, then stays
with John and Clair Evans in West Brookville, ME; September-December:
Bangor, ME and visits Mt Katahdin.

1940 - (age: 63) - January: Receives $300 prize for "End of Hurricane"
in the Pennsylvania Academy annual exhibit. March: Exhibits first Mt
Katahdin paintings and more figural works at Hudson Walker. New York
City; Summer: Corea, ME.

1941 - (age: 64) - January: Publishes poems book "Sea Burial". Winter
in Bangor, ME. March: Hotel Winslow, New York City; Summer: Corea.
October: Joint exhibition with Stuart Davis at the Cincinnati Art
Museum. December: Cincinnati and Cleveland and Christmas with his
family.

1942 - (age: 65) - Returns to New York, then to Corea. November: First
exhibition at Paul Rosenberg and Company, New York.

1943 - (age: 66) - January: New York City; July: Corea, very ill; dies
of heart problems at Ellsworth, ME on 2 September.

--
Regards,
Sanjeev Narang

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