In Landscape No. 3, Cash Entry Mines, New Mexico, Marsden Hartley used short brushstrokes, patches of pigment, and abstracted cloud forms to portray soaring mountains under a vibrant sky, intentionally minimizing the industrial mines that are the subject of this composition. The artist had spent eighteen months in New Mexico from 1918 until he returned to New York in 1919, but he continued to paint the Southwest from memory for several years, increasingly exaggerating the dramatic terrain and brilliant hues as time passed. For Hartley, as for so many artists who visited the Southwest, the remembered landscape became a vehicle for modernist exploration of color and shape.
Date
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Signed and dated recto, bottom-right, on sandy hill, in black paint: "Marsden Hartley / 1920".
Dimensions
70.6 × 90.8 cm (27 3/4 × 35 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Alfred Stieglitz Collection
Reference Number
1949.549
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Ernst W. Watson, “Two Painters, A Study in Contrasts,” American Artist 9 (May 1945),,12–18 (ill.).
Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), 212.
Gail R. Scott, Marsden Hartley (Abbeville Press, 1988).
Jeanne Hokin, Pinnacles and PyraMich.ds (University of New Mexico, 1993), 43–45, pl. 10.
Arnold Skolnick, ed., Paintings of the Southwest, (Clarkson Potter Publishers, 1994), 62 (ill.).
Colleen Carroll, “How Artists See the Elements” (Abbeville Press, date unknown).
Judith A. Barter, et al., American Modernism at the Art Institute of Chicago, From World War I to 1955 (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2009), cat. 22.
New York City, Museum of Modern Art, “Lyonel Feninger, Marsden Hartley,” 1944, p. 70 (ill.).
New York City, Museum of Modern Art, “Alfred Stiegliz: His Collection,” June 10– Aug. 31, 1947, no cat.
New York City, Whitney Museum of Art, “Marsden Hartley,” Mar. 4–May 25, 1980, pl. 88; Art Institute of Chicago, June 10–Aug. 3, 1980, Fort Worth, Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, Sept. 5–Oct. 26, 1980, Berkeley, University of California Art Museum, Nov. 12, 1980–Jan. 4, 1981.
Santa Fe, Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, The Search for an American Modernism: Marsden Hartley and New Mexico, Jan. 25–May 11, 2008.
Brooklyn Museum of Art, Youth and Beauty: Art of the American Twenties, Oct. 28, 2011–Jan. 22, 2012; Dallas Museum of Art, Feb. 24–May 27, 2012; Cleveland Museum of Art, July 1–Sept. 16, 2012.
Alfred Stieglitz Collection, New York; bequeathed through Georgia O’Keeffe to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1949.
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