Marsden Hartley American, 1877-1943
Camden Hills from Baker's Island, Penobscot Bay, Maine, 1938
Oil on board
21½ x 27½ inches
54.6 x 69.8 cm
54.6 x 69.8 cm
Signed with the artist's initials at lower left: M.H.; inscribed with the title on verso
This work is included in Gail R. Scott’s Marsden Hartley Legacy Project: Complete Paintings and Works on Paper with Bates College Museum of Art.
This work is included in Gail R. Scott’s Marsden Hartley Legacy Project: Complete Paintings and Works on Paper with Bates College Museum of Art.
Provenance
The artist; toHudson Walker Gallery, New York; to
Mrs. Arnold T. (Janet Merryweather) Hutcheson, New York, 1940; by descent to
Private collection, 1962-2015; to
[Sale: Christie's, New York, November 19, 2015, lot 13]; to
The present owner, 2015
Exhibitions
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio, c. 1945–80 (on extended loan)Barridoff Galleries, Portland, Maine, Marsden Hartley in New England, July 12–September 3, 1980, no. 7, as Camden Hills from Baker's Island
Salander O'Reilly Galleries, Inc., New York, Marsden Hartley and Walt Kuhn: The Landscapes, January 8–February 27, 1983
Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, Inc., New York, Marsden Hartley, 1877–1943: Paintings and Drawings, January 8–February 27, 1988, no. 23, pl. 21, illus., as Camden Hills from Baker's Island
Portland Museum of Art, Maine, 1980–2015 (on extended loan)
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, Hartley at Yale, October 30, 2024-October 26, 2025, as Camden Hills from Baker's Island
Literature
"Nebraska Rounds the Half Century Mark," Art Digest 19, no. 11, March 1, 1940, p. 29; illus., p. 5"The 'New' Hartley Emerges from Down East," Art Digest 14, March 15, 1940, as Camden Hills, No. 2
Elizabeth McCausland, Elizabeth McCausland Papers, 1838–1995, bulk 1920–1960, Series 6: Marsden Hartley, 1900–1964, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., 15.38.17, 20–21 datasheets, as Camden Hills from Baker's Island, Penobscot Bay, Maine
