Bates Museum of Art Collection - [Landscape with Wooded Road with Gate]

[Landscape with Wooded Road with Gate]

1927
Marsden Hartley, American, (Lewiston, ME, January 4, 1877 - September 2, 1943, Ellsworth, ME)

Object Type	Marsden Hartley Memorial Collection
Dimensions	11 1/2 x 8 3/4 in. (29.21 x 22.23 cm)
Medium	Graphite on beige paper
Credit Line	Bates College Museum of Art, Marsden Hartley Memorial Collection, Gift of Norma Berger, 1955.1.19
Accession Number	1955.1.19

Notes

This work is one of the finest in the Chateau Noir series, exhibiting Hartley's masterful alliance of the graphic medium and subject. The foreground path leads the viewer from warm sunlight, through the gate, and, framed by one tree at left and three at right, into the cool woods in the background. The artist uses a skilled variety of pencil strokes: sharply delineated contour lines of the foreground road and tree trunks, pressed heavily or with repeated strokes; loose swirls, dashes, and dots for foreground vegetation; thick lines, together with diagonal hatching and rubbing for the gate, lamps, and wall; single curved lines, together with broad (sided edge of the pencil) diagonal shading to suggest in simplest terms the canopy of trees.

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20th Century, Black & White, Black and White, Drawing, Forest, Graphite, Hartley, Landscape, Local, Maine, Marsden, Marsden Hartley, Marsden Hartley Memorial Collection, Paper, Sketch, Sketching, Tree, Trees, Works on paper