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Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART
Preferred Title:
Hall of the Mountain King
Image View:
Detail, clouds and mountain top
Creator:
Marsden Hartley (American painter, 1877-1943)
Location:
repository: Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art (Bentonville, Arkansas, United States)
Date:
ca. 1908-1909 (creation)
Cultural Context:
American
Style Period:
Neo-Impressionist; Twentieth century
Work Type 1:
painting (visual work)
Classification:
Paintings
Material:
oil paint on canvas
Technique:
oil painting (technique)
Measurements:
30 in (height) x 30 in (width)
Subjects:
landscape; music; mountains; Neo-Impressionism; Maine
Description:
Part of Exhibit "Marsden Hartley's Maine," July 8-November 12, 2017. From 1900 Hartley regularly spent his summers in Maine, a state for which he maintained an enduring passion. At the end of autumn 1907 he moved from Maine to Boston, MA. By this stage his painting was progressing from an American form of Impressionism to a type of Neo-Impressionism. The grouping of seasonal themed Maine landscapes into "songs" signaled their association with Whitman's "Song of Myself." Like Hartley's Songs, this evokes music, taking its title from Edvard Grieg's "In the Hall of the Mountain King" from Peer Gynt. (Source: Cassidy, Donna M., Elizabeth Finch, Randall R. Griffey; Marsden Hartley's Maine, New Haven CT: Yale University Press, 2017 (9781588396136))
Collection:
Archivision Adjunct Module C: World Art
Identifier:
7A1-HARTLEY-CA-HM-A0 3
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Hall of the Mountain King