Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART
Preferred Title:
Church at Corea
Image View:
Overall view without frame
Creator:
Marsden Hartley (American painter, 1877-1943)
Location:
exhibition: Colby College Museum of Art (Waterville, Maine, United States)
Location Note:
Part of Exhibit "Marsden Hartley's Maine," July 8-November 12, 2017
GPS:
44.565-69.660833
Date:
1941 (creation)
Cultural Context:
American
Style Period:
Expressionist; Twentieth century
Work Type 1:
painting (visual work)
Classification:
Paintings
Material:
oil paint on canvas board
Technique:
oil painting (technique)
Subjects:
abstraction; architecture; landscape; Baptist church; sketch; oil study
Description:
Part of Exhibit "Marsden Hartley's Maine," July 8-November 12, 2017. Collection of Karen and Kevin Kennedy. In this work Hartley painted the Baptist church at Corea as a derelict structure, flanked by overgrown grass and lobster traps in disarray. For the artist, this building, like the one at Head Tide, represented Maine as a place of faded glory. The church is still standing today. The work's small size and sketchy nature suggest it was a study for a larger oil painting. X-ray analysis revealed it was painted over an earlier still life. (Source: Colby Museum of Art [website]; http://www.colby.edu /museum/)
Collection:
Archivision Adjunct Module C: World Art
Identifier:
7A1-HARTLEY-CA-CC-A0 1
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Church at Corea