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“What I have to express is not handled with words. It must come to the observer. It must carry its influence over the mind of the individual into that region of him which is more than the mind.”

Insisting that art reaches beyond language into deeper experience · Letter to Alfred Stieglitz, 28 September 1913

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Marsden Hartley

4 January 1877–2 September 1943

Marsden Hartley stands as one of the most fascinating yet often overlooked figures in American modernism—a man who moved between painting and poetry with equal fervor, whose work captured the raw, untamed spirit of early twentieth-century artistic experimentation. Though primarily remembered as a visual artist…

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