About the Object
A view of Mont Sainte-Victoire, a mountain ridge in the south of France, where Marsden Hartley lived in the late 1920s. The view and brushwork are clear homages to Paul Cézanne, but the vibrant palette, with its hot pinks and brilliant blues, is all Hartley. In this painting, the mountain consumes the canvas, there are no roads or trees, the intervening distance has been compressed. Bands of color suggest varying terrain and the play of light across the mountain. A pinkish cloud extends across the top of the canvas, like an arm reaching to envelope the peak.
Additional Information
Hartley created at least four other paintings of this view: Mont Sainte-Victoire, 1927, Des Moines Art Center; Mont Sainte-Victoire, 1927, Collection of Elaine and Henry Kaufman; and at least two in private collections. In each work he explored slightly different foregrounds, sometimes including trees or a road, and experimented with the shading on the mountain and the treatment of the sky.
The Artist;
Judge George Alexander Carden, Sr., Bayshore, NY, from the Artist;
[M. Knoedler & Company, New York, NY, consigned by above, 1944–1948];
Mr. Walter Katzenberger, purchased from above, January 3, 1948;
[Lee Naiman Fine Art, New York, NY];
[Armand Bartos Fine Art, New York, NY, from above, c. 1994];
[Martha Parrish & James Reinish, Inc., New York, NY, consigned by above];
Private Collection, Massachusetts, purchased from above through Lucy Aptekar Art Advisory, c. 1996–2007;
[Gerald Peters Gallery, New York, NY. consigned by above];
New York, NY. Salander-O’Reilly Gallery. Marsden Hartley: Paintings and Drawings. January 8-February 27, 1988, cat. no. 17, ill. pl. 15.
Montclair, NJ. Montclair Art Museum. Cézanne and American Modernism. (September 13, 2009-January 3, 2010); Baltimore, MD. The Baltimore Museum of Art (February 14-May 23, 2010); Phoenix, AZ. Phoenix Art Museum (July 3-September 26, 2010); pp. 48, 216, 224, 342, ill. p. 224, cat. no. 55.
Tulsa, OK. Philbrook Museum of Art. From New York to New Mexico: Masterworks of American Modernism from the Vilcek Foundation Collection (February 8-May 3, 2015); Phoenix, AZ. Phoenix Art Museum (June 5-September 6, 2015); Santa Fe, NM. Georgia O’Keeffe Museum (September 25, 2015-January 10, 2016).
New York, NY. The Met Breuer. Marsden Hartley’s Maine (March 15-June 18, 2017); Waterville, ME. Colby College Museum of Art (July 8-November 12, 2017).
Lewiston, ME. Bates College Museum of Art. Marsden Hartley: Adventurer in the Arts. September 20-November 19, 2021, pp. 9, 94, ill. p. 95.
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 47, Frames 3-14. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Elizabeth McCausland Papers, Other Research Files: Notes on Dating and Style, 1950-1953, undated. Box 18, Folder 36, Frame 4. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
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