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Home > Art > The Waxenstein, Garmisch Partenkirchen

The Waxenstein, Garmisch Partenkirchen

Large gray mountains with clouds above them.
Artist

Marsden Hartley

Date

1933-34

Medium

Oil on heavy cardboard

Object Type

Painting

Dimensions

H- 29 1/4 x W- 20 3/4 in. (74.2 x 52.7 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

2021.02.01

Copyright

© The Vilcek Foundation

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American Modernism oil painting
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Large gray mountains with clouds above them.

The Artist;
[Christie’s, New York, May 29, 1987, lot 289];
[Vanderwoude Tananbaum Gallery, New York, NY (1993-98)];
Carol Feinberg, New York;
Estate of Carol Feinberg, New York;
[Jonathan Boos, New York];

Hartford, Connecticut. The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art. Marsden Hartley (January 17-April 20, 2003); Washington, DC. Phillips Collection (June 7- September 7, 2003); Kansas City. Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (October 11, 2003-January 11, 2004); pp. 309-10, ill. p. 170, pl. 55.

Elizabeth McCausland Papers, Catalogue Raisonne Files: Box 15, folder 15, frames 40-42. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Ludington, Townsend. Seeking the Spiritual: The Paintings of Marsden Hartley (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1998), pp. 18-20, ill. p. 18, fig. 12.

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