Art Institute of Chicago
Movement
Marsden Hartley (American, 1877–1943)LinkedCulture matchlcp-01773dd74811
- Date
- 1913
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Culture
- United States
- Department
- Arts of the Americas
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 65916
From the Art Institute of Chicago record
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, Movement 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.
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- Credit line
- Alfred Stieglitz Collection
- Provenance
- Alfred Stieglitz Collection, New York City; bequeathed through Georgia O'Keeffe to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1949.
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- Object type
- AAT300033618
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