28-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Wall Street Journal
‘Marsden Hartley: Adventurer in the Arts' Review: A Roving Life and Career
Santa Fe, N.M.
Afflicted by a lifelong case of wanderlust, Marsden Hartley hobnobbed with some of the greatest cultural innovators of the early 20th century. He was championed by Alfred Stieglitz, who launched the American Modernist movement and gave him a show at his revolutionary New York gallery, 291. In Paris he was briefly part of Gertrude Stein's celebrated circle before moving to Berlin, where he befriended Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc. He was drawn to Mabel Dodge Luhan's orbit in New York's Greenwich Village and Taos, N.M., and he summered in Provincetown, Mass., with the likes of Eugene O'Neill and John Reed.
