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Hartley, Marsden

Mr. Hartley's parents, although born in England, are now naturalized citizens of the United States.

At the age of fifteen, after completing a grammar school education, he started his art studies at the Cleveland School of Art. Later be went to New York on a scholarship where he spent his first year in the Chase School studying under Luis Mora and William Chase. The following four years were spent at the National Academy of Design as a contemporary of Maurice Sterne and others.

Through the Swiss impressionistic realist, Segantini, he first learned how to begin painting the Maine mountains at Center Lovell and North Lovell.

In Europe he spent four years in Berlin and various intervals in France, returning to the United States in 1930. His reason for painting is "clarification of self."

Mr. Hartley is represented in the following collections: Phillipa Memorial Gallery, Barnes Foundation, Ferdinand Howald, Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Rosenfeld, Mrs. Alma Wertheim, Herbert Seligmann and others.

From:

MODERN AMERICAN PAINTERS by Samuel M. Kootz