About the Object
Christ is a portrait of Jesus Christ shown from the chest up, his bare torso exposed, against a bright red background. He appears in the midst of an appeal, with his head is tilted back, eyes focused above, eyebrows furrowed, and mouth open.
Additional Information
In the last few years of his life, Hartley depicted Christ frequently in works like Three Friends, 1941, in the Sidney and Louis Eskenazi Museum of Art, and Christ Held by Half-Naked Men, 1940–41, in the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.
The Artist;
Estate of the Artist, Inv. #17, c. 1944-1959;
Paul Rosenberg & Co., New York, NY, consigned and then purchased from above];
Alfredo Valente Gallery, New York, NY, purchased from above, January 20, 1960;
Development Office, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Teaneck, NJ, acquired from above;
[Joan Washburn Gallery, New York, NY, consigned by above, 1987];
Private Collection, New York, purchased from above, 1987;
[Joan Washburn Gallery, New York, NY, consigned by above, 1989];
The Barney A. Ebsworth Collection, Seattle, WA, purchased from above, 1989-2018;
[Christie’s, New York, NY, November 14, 2018, lot 528];
New York, NY. Alfredo Valente Gallery. Marsden Hartley, September 28-November 5, 1960, no. 17.
New York, NY. Washburn Gallery. Major American Paintings, June 1987, no. 8, ill.
New York, NY. Washburn Gallery. Major Paintings, Drawings & Photographs, November 22-December 3, 1996 no. 6.
Lewiston, ME. Bates College Museum of Art. Marsden Hartley: Adventurer in the Arts. September 20-November 19, 2021, p. 86, ill. p. 87.
Santa Fe, NM. New Mexico Museum of Art. Marsden Hartley: Adventurer in the Arts. April 5-July 25, 2025.
G. Alan Chidsey, Trustee for the Hartley Estate. Volume of Photographs of Paintings, Pastels, Drawings and Lithographs by Marsden Hartley. Washington, D.C. 1944–1960. Archives of American Art, G. Alan Chidsey Papers.
Elizabeth McCausland Papers, Catalogue Raisonne Files: Oils, [circa 1944-1964], Box 16, Folder 10, Frames 1-2. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Robertson, Bruce. “Marsden Hartley and Self-Portraiture,” in E.M. Kornhauser, Marsden Hartley. Hartford: Wadsworth Atheneum, 2002, pp. 156, 161, 248, ill. p. 156, fig. 2.
Coco, Janice. “Dialogues with the Self: New Thoughts on Marsden Hartley’s Self-Portraits,” Prospects: An Annual of American Cultural Studies, vol. 30, 2005, pp. 635-36, fig. 5, ill.
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