Little Canyon, Talpa de Allende, New Mexico

ca. 1918

Marsden Hartley

Born Lewiston, Maine, 1877; died Ellsworth, Maine, 1943

Pastel on paper

Framed: 28 3/4 x 38 7/8 in.

Promised gift of Mr. and Mrs. Howard S. Wright and partial gift of the Howard S. Wright Foundation

91.270

Provenance: Dr. and Mrs. Harold Rifkin, New York, by 1987; [Terry Dintenfass Gallery, New York, by 1991]; sold to Mr. and Mrs. Howard S. Wright Collection, 1991; Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, 1991

Not currently on view

Resources

Exhibition HistoryHirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, Painters in Pastel: A Survey of American Works, February 25–May 5, 1987 (exhibition catalogue), p. 91, no. 96, color illus., as Little Canyon, Talpa, lent by Dr. and Mrs. Harold Rifkin.

Alexandre Gallery, New York, Marsden Hartley New Mexico 1918–1920, An American Discovering America, March 6–April 19, 2003. Essay by Gail R Scott, n.p., pl. 15, as Little Canyon, Talpa de Allende, New Mexico, lent by The Seattle Art Museum.

Seattle Art Museum, In the American Grain, February 8 – May 5, 1996 (Philips Collection, Washington, D.C.; Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan; Fukushima Prefectural Museum of Art, Japan; Chiba Municipal Museum of Art, Japan; Portland Art Museum).

Published ReferencesUnsigned. "Oils and Pastels at Daniel's". American Art News 17.13 (January 4, 1919), mentioned, as Canyon, Talpa.

Scott, Gail R. "On the Ground and Into the Subject, Marsden Hartley in New Mexico, 1919–1918". In Marsden Hartley, New Mexico 1918-1920: An American Discovering America. New York: Alexandre Fine Art, Inc., 2003; n.p.

Hole, Heather. ’America as Landscape’: Marsden Hartley and New Mexico, 1918-1924, Ph.D. dissertation. Princeton: Princeton University, 2005; p. 47; checklist, p. 288; illus. (b&w), fig. 1.10, p. 59.

Hole, Heather. Marsden Hartley and the West: The Search for an American Modernism, exh. cat. New Haven, Connecticut: Georgia O'Keeffe Museum/Yale University Press, 2007; p. 37; illus. (color), fig. 55, p. 37, as Little Canyon, Talpa, Seattle Art Museum.

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