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Photography by Edward C. Robison III

Maine Landscape, Autumn No. 13

Marsden Hartley’s Maine Landscape, Autumn, No. 13 likely belongs to a group of 15 paintings by the artist titled Songs of Autumn. In this painting and other works in the series, Hartley used warm fall colors and short, stitch-like brush strokes in a style influenced by Italian painter Giovanni Segantini.

ArtistMarsden Hartley(1877-1943)
Dateca. 1909
MediumOil on board
Dimensions17 x 17 1/4 x 5 7/8 in.
Mark(s)verso, u.l.: Museum of Modern Art / Loan / Stieglitz / 44.1678 [Museum of Modern Art label]
Credit LineAlfred Stieglitz Collection, Co-owned by Fisk University, Nashville, Tennessee, and Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas
ClassificationPainting
Provenanceacquired from the Artist by Alfred Stieglitz [1864-1946], New York, NY; by bequest to Georgia O’Keeffe [1887-1986] (his wife), New York, NY, 1946; given to Fisk University, Nashville, TN, 1949; to Fisk University, Nashville, TN, and Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR (owned jointly), 2012
On ViewNo
Maine Landscape, Aut…17 × 17.3 in.Tennis Ball2.7 in. diameter

This artwork's face covers about 40× the area of a tennis ball.Drawn to the same scale.