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Home > Art > Grapes – Berlin

Grapes – Berlin

Artist

Marsden Hartley

Date

1922/23

Medium

Oil on canvas

Object Type

Painting

Dimensions

H- 10 5/8 x W- 18 3/8 in. (27 x 46.7 cm)

Artist's Country of Birth

United States

Collecting Area

American Modernism

Credit Line

The Jan T. and Marica Vilcek Collection, Promised gift to The Vilcek Foundation

Accession Number

2005.05.01

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.

About the Object

In Grapes – Berlin, Hartley has focused in on a single still-life element. Bunches of red and green grapes rest in a paper wrapper on a table in the corner of a space.

 

Additional Information

Hartley created at least five paintings and two lithographs of grapes during this time. The Brooklyn Museum has a lithograph of Grapes, 1923, in its collection.

The Artist;
Adelaide Kuntz, Bronxville, NY, from the artist;
Bertha Schaefer Gallery, New York, NY, consigned by above, at least by 1955;
Diane Fisher, Florida, purchased from above, until 2002;
[Owings-Dewey Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM, consigned by above, 2002];

Probably: New York, NY. Bertha Schaefer Gallery. Exhibition of Paintings by Marsden Hartley Before 1932. April 5-17, 1948, cat. no. 7.

Santa Fe, NM. Owings Fine Art. Annual Exhibition of Small Oils, Watercolors and Pastels. March 12–April 24, 2004, color illus., as Grapes.

Santa Fe, NM. Owings Fine Art. Mid Summer Modernism Paintings and Drawings. July 30–September 12, 2004, color illus., as Grapes.

Santa Fe, NM. Owings Gallery on Palace. Gallery Selections Summer. August 5–September 15, 2016, color illus., as Grapes.

Santa Fe, NM. Owings Gallery on Palace. Gallery Selections Winter 2017. December 15, 2017–March 30, 2018, color illus., as Grapes.

Lewiston, ME. Bates College Museum of Art. Marsden Hartley: Adventurer in the Arts. September 20-November 19, 2021, p. 109, ill. p. 109.

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

Elizabeth McCausland Papers, Marsden Hartley Catalogue Raisonné: Oils, [circa 1944-1964]. Box 14, Folder 31, Frame 25, ill. Frame 25. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Elizabeth McCausland Papers, Other Research Files: Research Materials, 1951-1958. Box 19, Folder 13, Frame 27. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Agee, William C. and Lewis Kachur. Masterpieces of American Modernism: From the Vilcek Collection. London: Merrell, 2013, pp. 64-65, 240, 266, ill. p. 65.

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