A bunch of red and yellow grapes wrapped in brown paper set against a deep red background.

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;
[Bertha Schaefer Gallery, New York, NY];
Diane Fisher, Florida, until 2002;
[Owings-Dewey Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM, 2002-2005];

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

Lewiston, ME. Bates College Museum of Art. Marsden Hartley: Adventurer in the Arts (September 20-November 19, 2021); New York. The Vilcek Foundation (March 10-June 16, 2023).

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.

Elizabeth McCausland Papers, Other Research Files: Research Materials, 1951-1958. Box 19, Folder 15, Frames 18, 34. 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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