About This Artwork

Marsden Hartley
American, 1877-1943

Madawaska--Acadian Light-Heavy, 1940

Oil on hardboard
101.6 x 76.2 cm (40 x 30 in.)
Signed, inscribed, and dated verso: Madawaska--Acadian / Light-Heavy / Marsden Hartley / 1940.

Bequest of A. James Speyer, 1987.249

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

New York, Salander O'Reilly Galleries, "Marsden Hartley: The Late Figure Works," May 30-June 30, 1990.

Turin, Italy, Lingotto, "Arte Americana," January-March 1992.

Hartford, Wadsworth Atheneum, "Marsden Hartley: American Modernist", January 18-April 20, 2003; traveled to Washington, DC, Phillips Collection, June 7-September 7, 2003; Kansas City, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, October 11, 2003-January 11, 2004.

Publication History

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. 116.




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