Marsden Hartley

About

Remembered for works such as The Ice Hole, Portrait of a German Officer, and Painting No. 48, this American Modernist painter also had a successful literary career, publishing an autobiographical work titled Cleophas and His Own: A North Atlantic Tragedy, as well as a 1923 poetry collection.

Before Fame

He received his early artistic training at the Cleveland Institute of Art, the New York School of Art, and the National Academy of Design.

Trivia

During the second decade of the twentieth century, he lived and worked in Europe and befriended such literary and artistic luminaries as Gertrude Stein and Wassily Kandinsky.

Family Life

Born Edmund Hartley, he grew up with eight older siblings and spent his childhood in Maine and Ohio.

Associated With

Hartley's early work impressed photographer Alfred Stieglitz so much that Stieglitz made the arrangements for Hartley's first solo art exhibition, which occurred in 1909 at New York's famous 291 gallery.