Alpspitze-Mittenwald Road
Marsden HARTLEY
(American, 1877-1943)
Alpspitze-Mittenwald Road
Dateca. winter 1933-1934
Mediumoil on paper board
Dimensionsoverall: 18 5/8 × 29 3/4 in. (47.3 × 75.6 cm)
frame: 23 1/4 × 35 in. (59.1 × 88.9 cm)
ClassificationPAINTINGS
Credit LineSBMA, Gift of Mrs. Sterling Morton to the Preston Morton Collection
Object number1960.61
Subject(s)
- landscape
- winter
- snow
- mountain
Collection
- 20th century American
- American
Sub-Collection(s)
- Modernism
- American
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Label TextThis is one of a series of paintings produced by Hartley during the most fecund periods of his late career. A highly experimental artist, who traveled extensively in France and Germany, Hartley brought all the avant-garde lessons of the previous twenty years to bear, achieving a truly original pictorial idiom. Like Cézanne and his mountain in the South of France, Hartley strove to capture the specific character of the mountains he studied in the Swiss Alps. The simplification of forms, calligraphic contouring, and overall unfinish attest to Hartley’s allegiance to a rigorous modernism that is as much indebted to German Expressionism as it is to the legacy of Cézanne and his emulators, including the Swiss Symbolist, Ferdinand Hodler.
