This lecture will offer a preview of the upcoming exhibition Marsden Hartley’s Maine, which will be on view at the Met Breuer from March 15 to June 18, 2017. The exhibition will explore Marsden Hartley’s complex, sometimes contradictory, and visually arresting relationship with his native state—from the lush Post-Impressionist inland landscapes with which he launched his career, to the later roughly rendered paintings of Maine’s rugged coastal terrain, its hardy inhabitants, and the magisterial Mount Katahdin. Marsden Hartley’s Maine will illuminate Maine as a critical factor in understanding the artist’s high place in American art history.
Free and open to the public, but space is limited.