An Exciting New Exhibition
Everyone at the museum is hard at work preparing for the opening of the new special exhibition,
Marsden Hartley and the West: The Search for an American Modernism, which will be on view at the Carter from June 14 through August 24.
Hartley (1877–1943) is considered to be one of the foremost American painters of the first half of the twentieth century. His boldly colored paintings focus on monumental shapes, especially clouds and landscape forms. This unique style was described by influential critic Carl Sadakichi Hartmann (1869–1944) as an “emerging modernism that evolved through Impressionism”.
Hartley ran in the same circles as Georgia O’Keeffe, Charles Demuth, Alfred Stieglitz, Fernand Leger, Gertrude Stein, and Ezra Pound.
This exhibition was organized by Heather Hole, formerly curator at the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum and now an assistant curator of American art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Heather Hole will present a free, public lecture on Saturday at 11 a.m. entitled Marsden Hartley and the West: The Search for an American Modernism. Her lecture will be followed by an informal reception and book-signing. For more information, please call 817.989.5057.