Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART
Preferred Title:
Song of Winter No. 6
Image View:
Overall view without frame
Creator:
Marsden Hartley (American painter, 1877-1943)
Location:
repository: Farnsworth Art Museum (Rockland, Maine, United States)
Location Note:
5600 Mayflower Hill (exhibition)
GPS:
44.565-69.660833
Date:
ca. 1908-1909 (creation)
Cultural Context:
American
Style Period:
Fauve; Neo-Impressionist; Twentieth century
Work Type 1:
painting (visual work)
Classification:
Paintings
Material:
oil paint on board
Technique:
oil painting (technique)
Measurements:
22.5 cm (height) x 30.2 cm (width)
Subjects:
landscape; music; Maine; winter; seasons
Description:
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." Around 1909 his work took a Fauvist shift and he declared himself an "imaginative colorist." (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-SW-A0 1
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Song of Winter No. 6