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Home > Art > Tropic Fantasy

Tropic Fantasy

Artist

Marsden Hartley

Date

1935-36

Medium

Oil on canvas

Object Type

Painting

Dimensions

H- 20 1/8 x W- 24 1/8 in. (51 x 61.2 cm)

Artist's Country of Birth

United States

Collecting Area

American Modernism

Credit Line

The Vilcek Foundation

Accession Number

VF2021.06.01

Copyright

© The Vilcek Foundation

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Currently on loan

Marsden Hartley: Adventurer in the Arts is on view at the New Mexico Museum of Art in Santa Fe from April 5-July 25, 2025.

The Artist;
WPA Project, Federal Art Project, No. 824, 1935–1943;
Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO, gift from above, deaccessioned, 1943–1959;
Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, NY, June 3, 1959, sale 1980, lot 56;
Andre Previn, Los Angeles, CA;
[B.C. Holland, Inc., Chicago, IL];
[Alan Frumkin Gallery, New York, NY and Chicago, IL];
[Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, Inc., New York, NY, consigned by above, c. 1985);
Private Collection, New York;
[Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA];
The Bedford Family Collection, 1989;
Owings Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, purchased from above;
Ray and Kay Harvey Collection, 2015–2021;
Owings Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, purchased from above;

WPA Federal Art Project, 1936, no. 824.

New York, NY. An American Place. Marsden Hartley: First Exhibition in Four Years All Pictures Show for the First Time Publicly, March 22–April 14, 1936, one of a series of four Tropic fantasies, checklist #12-15.

New York, NY. The Museum of Modern Art. New Horizons in American Art (September 14–October 12, 1936);  Chicago, IL. Chicago Art Institute (January 4–February 1, 1937); San Francisco, CA. California Palace of the Legion of Honor (February 15–March 15, 1937); Portland, OR. Portland Art Association (March 24–April 21, 1937); Dallas, TX. Dallas Museum of Fine Arts (August 25–September 22, 1937); Milwaukee, WI. Milwaukee Art Institute (October 8–November 7, 1937); Springfield, MA. George William Vincent Smith Art Gallery (November 21–December 19, 1937); Rochester, NY. Rochester Memorial Art Gallery (January 7–31, 1938); Cleveland, OH. Cleveland Museum of Art (February 10–March 13, 1938); no. 82, checklist, p. 145.

Santa Barbara, CA. Santa Barbara Museum of Art. 3 Young Collections. January 15-February 26, 1967.

New York, NY. Salander-O’Reilly Galleries. Marsden Hartley: Paintings and Drawings. March 6–April 27, 1985, no. 62, ill.

Santa Fe, NM. Owings Gallery on Palace. Modern Perspective. July 17–August 8, 2015, ill.

Santa Fe, NM. New Mexico Museum of Art. Marsden Hartley: Adventurer in the Arts. April 5-July 25, 2025.

Elizabeth McCausland Papers, Marsden Hartley: Other Research Files, 1921-1962. Box 19, Folder 13, Frame 11. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

City Art Museum (St. Louis, MO), “Newsletter,” April 1957.

New York. Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc. June 3, 1959, sale 1908, lot 56.

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