Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART
Preferred Title:
Small Town, Maine
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:
5600 Mayflower Hill (exhibition)
GPS:
44.565-69.660833
Date:
ca. 1940 (creation)
Cultural Context:
American
Style Period:
Twentieth century
Work Type 1:
drawing (visual work)
Classification:
Drawings and Watercolors
Material:
charcoal; white chalk on tinted paper
Technique:
drawing (image-making)
Subjects:
genre; landscape; seascape; Boats and boating; Fishing; fishing village; coastal Maine
Description:
Part of Exhibit "Marsden Hartley's Maine," July 8-November 12, 2017, from a private collection (AXA Equitable Life Insurance Company). This sketch likely depicts the tiny harbor village of Corea, where Hartley lived and worked from 1940 to 1943. Hartley described it in a letter to a friend as "a wonderful fishing village, a real one, and so like my beloved Nova Scotia, dear old boys sitting in their fish house doorways, quantities of lobster-pots lying around, a post office, and grocery, and a fish-shop." (Source: Colby Museum of Art [website]; http://www.colby.edu /museum/)
Collection:
Archivision Adjunct Module C: World Art
Identifier:
7A1-HARTLEY-CA-STM-A 01
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Small Town, Maine