“I could never be French, I could never become German – I shall always remain American – the essence which is in me is American mysticism.”
About 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…