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Home > Art > Flower in a Vase

Flower in a Vase

Artist

Marsden Hartley

Date

1917

Medium

Reverse oil on glass

Object Type

Painting

Dimensions

H- 13 1/4 x W- 6 in. (33.7 x 15.2 cm)

Artist's Country of Birth

United States

Collecting Area

American Modernism

Credit Line

The Vilcek Foundation

Accession Number

VF2021.02.01

Copyright

© The Vilcek Foundation

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American Modernism oil painting
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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;
Hamilton Easter Field, from the artist, c. 1917-1922;
Collection of Robert Laurent, Ogunquit, ME and Brooklyn Heights, NY, by descent from above (1922–1970) and [possibly] by descent in the family;
Martin and Harriet Diamond Collection, acquired from above;
Christie Mayer Inc., New York, NY, purchased from above;
[Christies, New York, NY, American Paintings Sale, December 2, 2014, lot 114, consigned by above];
Private collection, Washington, D.C., purchased from above sale, through Gerald Peters Gallery (2004–2021)
(Downing Yudain LLC, Stamford, CT, consigned by above, 2021);

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

Elizabeth McCausland Papers, Catalogue Raisonne Files, box 14, folder 11, frame 14. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Bolger, Doreen. “Hamilton Easter Field and His Contribution to American Modernism”. American Art Journal (New York) 20, no. 2 (1988), p. 96, illus., as Still Life.

Christies’s New York. Important American Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture. December 1, 2004, lot 114.

Broun, Elizabeth. “Marsden Hartley at Auction”. In American Art Collecting and Connoisseurship, edited by Stephen M. Sessler, pp. 67–73. London and New York: Merrell Publishers Limited, 2020, p. 69; illus. (color), fig. 1, p. 67, as Still Life.

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