As a member of the Stieglitz circle, Hartley contributed to the group’s soil-and-spirit rhetoric, or the idea that the spiritual essence of a new American modernism could be found in the American landscape. The exhibition examines the full range of Hartley’s aesthetic investigation of the land, from the pastels he created during his first visit in the summer of 1918 to the masterfully orchestrated series of oil paintings, known as the New Mexico Recollections, he created several years later in Berlin.

This exhibition was organized by the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum and has been made possible by the National Endowment for the Arts as part of its American Masterpieces program, The Burnett Foundation, The Annenberg Foundation, and The Kerr Foundation. The Fort Worth presentation of the exhibition is made possible in part by an anonymous gift.

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