Marsden Hartley American, 1877-1943

Mountain Number 21, 1929-1930

Oil on canvas

34 x 30 inches
86.4 x 76.2 cm

Provenance

Estate of the artist, estate no. 112, until 1956;
[Martha Jackson Gallery, until 1959];
Nelson Taylor Gallery, until 1960;
Mr. and Mrs. Herman Schneider, until 1967; to
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1967 (gift from the above); to
[Sotheby's, New York, Important American Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture, November 30, 2005, lot 37]; to
Private Collection, New York; to
[Alexandre Gallery, New York]; to
Private collection, New York; by 2013 until the present

Exhibitions

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Recent Acquisitions, June 1967-May 1968 // Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, The 20th Century: 35 American Artists, June-September 1974 // Whitney Museum of American Art (at Federal), New York, Stuart Davis, Charles Sheeler, Joseph Stella, 1979 // Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama, September 11-November 4, 1988; IBM Gallery of Science and Art, New York, November 27-January 30, 1988; Everson Museum of Art, February 14-March 27, 1988; Akron Art Museum, Ohio, April 9-June 5, 1988; and Vancouver Art Gallery, June 30-August 21, 1988, The Expressionist Landscape: North American Modernist Painting, 1920-1947, no. 59, p. 192, illus. fig. 96, p. 147 // Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Views from Abroad: European Perspectives on American Art, June-October 1995, p. 120 // San Jose Museum of Art, California, Surroundings: Responses to the American Landscape, June 1999-June 2000

Literature

Elizabeth McCausland papers, 1838-1995, bulk 1920-1960, Series 6: Marsden Hartley, 1900-1964, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., box 15, folder 2, frames 32-33 // Volume of Photographs of Paintings, Pastels and Drawings from the Estate of Marsden Hartley, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., no. 112, neg. no. 42, illus. // Catalogue of the Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1974, p. 151 // Barbara Haskell, Marsden Hartley, New York, 1980, no. 77, p. 81, illus. // Jeanne Hokin, Pinnacles & Pyramids: The Art of Marsden Hartley, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1993, pp. 70-71, illus.

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