Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART: Down East Young Blades
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Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART
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Preferred Title:
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Down East Young Blades
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Image View:
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Overall view without frame
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Creator:
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Marsden Hartley (American painter, 1877-1943)
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Location:
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repository: Wadsworth Atheneum (Hartford, Connecticut, United States) 1999.11.1
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Location Note:
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5600 Mayflower Hill (exhibition)
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GPS:
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+44.565-69.660833
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Date:
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ca. 1940 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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American
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Style Period:
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Expressionist; Twentieth century
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Work Type 1:
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painting (visual work)
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Classification:
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Paintings
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Material:
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oil paint on masonite
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Technique:
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oil painting (technique)
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Measurements:
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40 in (height) x 30 in (width)
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Subjects:
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genre; human figure; young men; Maine
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Description:
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Part of Exhibit "Marsden Hartley's Maine," July 8-November 12, 2017. This trio of dashing young "blades" underscores Hartley's pattern of sanctifying his Maine subjects, presenting them as saintlike, complete with regionally appropriate attributes. One figure holds a mackerel, a fish commonly used as lobster bait, while another grasps a lobster, suggesting that one is trying to attract the other; a coded homoerotic content. (Source: Colby Museum of Art [website]; http://www.colby.edu/museum/)
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Collection:
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Archivision Adjunct Module C: World Art
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Identifier:
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7A1-HARTLEY-CA-DE-A01
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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