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Marsden Hartley
Abstraction: Blue, Yellow and Greencirca 1913

Not on view
Abstract oil painting with angular, interlocking planes of red, green, blue, yellow, and white fanning outward from a central vertical wedge against a dark background
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.

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.