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Movements

A multitude of vibrantly colored shapes interweave with one another.
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Date:

1913

Artist:

Marsden Hartley (American, 1877–1943)

About this artwork

Unlike many other American artists, Marsden Hartley was more drawn to German Expressionism than to French modernism, and executed this painting in Berlin. Made on the eve of World War I, Movements possesses a turbulent energy that sparks associations with both the vibrancy of modern Berlin and movements of music. Like the Russian Expressionist painter Vasily Kandinsky, Hartley sought to make his work more like music, which he admired for its nonnarrative nature and its potential to be purely spiritual or separate from material reality.

Status

On View, Gallery 271

Department

Arts of the Americas

Artist

Marsden Hartley

Title

Movements

Place

United States (Artist's nationality:)

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1913

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

119.5 × 119 cm (47 × 46 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Alfred Stieglitz Collection

Reference Number

1949.544

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