Bates Museum of Art Collection - [Standing Male Figure (legs apart, hands on hips)]

[Standing Male Figure (legs apart, hands on hips)]

1940
Marsden Hartley, American, (Lewiston, ME, January 4, 1877 - September 2, 1943, Ellsworth, ME)

Object Type	Marsden Hartley Memorial Collection
Dimensions	11 3/4 x 9 in. (29.85 x 22.86 cm)
Medium	Graphite on white paper
Credit Line	Bates College Museum of Art, Marsden Hartley Memorial Collection, Gift of Norma Berger, 1955.1.74
Accession Number	1955.1.74

Notes

In the direct, frontal stance of this figure and somewhat in the vein of Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian Man, Hartley celebrates the beauty, symmetry, and sensuousness of the human body. Unlike these classical renditions, however, Hartley's figure is not nude, though nearly so with tight briefs and graphic emphasis on the genitals beneath the scant cloth.

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Drawing, Figurative, Figure, Hartley, Local, Maine, Marsden, Marsden Hartley, Marsden Hartley Memorial Collection, Paper, People, Sexuality, 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
Maine Moderns: Drawings by Marsden Hartley and Carl Sprinchorn Bates College Museum of Art , 6/8/2018 - 10/6/2018

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This object is a member of the following portfolios:

Hartley Artworks

Hartley Entire Collection

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