Marsden Hartley
Abstraction: Blue, Yellow and Greencirca 1913

Not on view

Artist or Maker: Marsden Hartley
United States, 1877-1943
Title: Abstraction: Blue, Yellow and Green
Date Made: circa 1913
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 25 3/16 x 19 1/8 in. (63.98 x 48.58 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Morton D. May
Accession Number: 53.25.4
Classification: Paintings
Collecting Area: Modern Art
Curatorial Notes: Modernist Marsden Hartley produced a dynamic body of paintings while living in Berlin from 1913 to 1915. Abstraction: Blue, Yellow and Green demonstrates the artist’s bold use of color and exemplifies his experiments with abstraction during this period. Hartley’s application of thick paint, along with the interplay of geometric shapes in primary and secondary hues, may suggest a formal exploration of color theory or a more symbolic approach to spirituality.
Provenance: The artist (1873-1943); [Alfred Stieglitz/An American Place, New York ca. 1914-1946] [1]; Alfred Stieglitz Estate, sold 1949 to; [E. Weyhe Art Books and Prints, New York]; sold in 1953 Morton D. May, St. Louis; given in 1953 to Los Angeles Museum of History, Science, and Art; transferred in 1961 to LACMA.
Selected Bibliography: Fort, Ilene Susan and Michael Quick. American Art: a Catalogue of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Collection. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1991.

Not on view

Artist or Maker: Marsden Hartley
United States, 1877-1943
Title: Abstraction: Blue, Yellow and Green
Date Made: circa 1913
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 25 3/16 x 19 1/8 in. (63.98 x 48.58 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Morton D. May
Accession Number: 53.25.4
Classification: Paintings
Collecting Area: Modern Art
Curatorial Notes: Modernist Marsden Hartley produced a dynamic body of paintings while living in Berlin from 1913 to 1915. Abstraction: Blue, Yellow and Green demonstrates the artist’s bold use of color and exemplifies his experiments with abstraction during this period. Hartley’s application of thick paint, along with the interplay of geometric shapes in primary and secondary hues, may suggest a formal exploration of color theory or a more symbolic approach to spirituality.
Provenance: The artist (1873-1943); [Alfred Stieglitz/An American Place, New York ca. 1914-1946] [1]; Alfred Stieglitz Estate, sold 1949 to; [E. Weyhe Art Books and Prints, New York]; sold in 1953 Morton D. May, St. Louis; given in 1953 to Los Angeles Museum of History, Science, and Art; transferred in 1961 to LACMA.
Selected Bibliography: Fort, Ilene Susan and Michael Quick. American Art: a Catalogue of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Collection. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1991.