Bates Museum of Art Collection - Seated Man with Wide Collar

Seated Man with Wide Collar

ca. 1938-1941
Marsden Hartley, American, (Lewiston, ME, January 4, 1877 - September 2, 1943, Ellsworth, ME)

Object Type	Marsden Hartley Memorial Collection
Dimensions	11 x 8 1/2 in. (27.94 x 21.59 cm)
Medium	Lithographic crayon on white paper
Credit Line	Bates College Museum of Art, Marsden Hartley Memorial Collection, Gift of Norma Berger, 1955.1.47
Accession Number	1955.1.47

Notes

This sketch and the previous two (1955.1.45 and 1955.1.46) are done with black crayon, which Hartley increasingly favored for landscape and figure drawings during the last seven years of his life. While the typical artist's crayon of this type is a lithographic crayon that he used when making his two series of lithographs (1923 and 1933-34), he said in a 1937 letter that the he was doing "some wonderful drawings which are really paintings with the grease crayons one marks packages with." Hartley's handling of the medium throughout this example exploits the rich blackness of the tool.

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Drawing, Figurative, Figure, Hartley, Local, Maine, Marsden, Marsden Hartley, Marsden Hartley Memorial Collection, Paper, People, Works on paper

Exhibition List

This object was included in the following exhibitions:

Marsden Hartley: The Late Figure Works , 5/1/1990 - 6/1/1990

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Hartley Artworks

Hartley Entire Collection

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