About This Artwork

Marsden Hartley
American, 1877-1943

Movements, 1913

Oil on canvas
119.5 x 119 cm (47 x 46 7/8 in.)
Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1949.544

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

New York City, Anderson Galleries, The Forum Exhibition of Modern American Painters, Mar. 13-25, 1916.

Philadelphia Museum of Art, History of an American, Alfred Stieglitz: ‘291’ and After, Summer 1944, cat. 244.

New York City, Museum of Modern Art, Alfred Stieglitz: His Collection, June 10-Aug. 31, 1947, cat. 36.

Art Institute of Chicago, Alfred Stieglitz: His Photographs and His Collection, Art Institute of Chicago, Feb. 7-Mar. 1948.

New York City, Whitney Museum of American Art, Marsden Hartley, Mar. 4-May 1980, cat. 17; traveled to Art Institute of Chicago, June 10-Aug. 3, 1980, Fort Worth, Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, Sept. 5-Oct. 26, 1980, University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, Nov. 12, 1980-Jan. 4, 1981.

Paris, Musee d'Orsay, Alfred Stieglitz and His Circle: Modernity in New York (1905 – 1930), Oct. 18, 2004-Jan. 16, 2005; traveled to Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro d'Arte reina Sofia, Feb. 10-May 17, 2005 (Paris only).

Publication History

“An American Collection,” The Philadelphia Museum Bulletin, 40, 206 (May 1945), pp. 66-80 (ill.).

Milton W. Brown, American Painting from the Armory Show to the Depression (Princeton University Press, 1955), p. 146 (ill.).

Instituto de Arte de Chicago (Madrid, El Mundo de los Museos, 1967), p. 82 (ill.).

Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), p. 211.

Daniel C. Rich, “The Stieglitz Collection,” Bulletin of The Art Institute of Chicago (1961), p. 211.

Richard Whelan, “Marsden Hartley, A ‘Sense of Truth and a Real Naivete of Spirit,” Artnews 79 (Summer 1980), pp. 118-20 (ill.).

The Art Institute of Chicago: Twentieth-Century Painting and Sculpture, selected by James N. Wood and Teri J. Edelstein (Art Institute of Chicago, 1996), p.36 (ill.).

Judith A. Barter et al., "American Modernism at the Art Institute of Chicago, From World War I to 1955," (Art Institute of Chicago/Yale University Press, 2009), cat. 8.

Ownership History

Alfred Stieglitz Collection, New York City; bequeathed through Georgia O'Keeffe to The Art Institute of Chicago, 1949.