1920
oil
canvas
From the collection of Art Institute of Chicago
Landscape No. 3, Cash Entry Mines, New Mexico is a 1920 oil by Marsden Hartley, a American Impressionism work, held at Art Institute of Chicago.
Hartley painted jagged New Mexico mountains in bold colors. They rise like purple teeth against a sky of pink and gold. The rocky ridges look almost unreal, softened by swirling clouds. He never painted the mines directly. Instead he focused on the wild, empty land around them. Hartley worked from memory after leaving New Mexico, stretching the shapes until they felt dramatic. Check out how impasto makes the paint thick and bumpy in person.
In Landscape No. 3, Cash Entry Mines, New Mexico , Marsden Hartley used short brushstrokes, patches of pigment, and abstracted cloud forms to portray soaring mountains under a vibrant sky, intentionally minimizing the industrial mines that are the subject of this composition. The artist had spent eighteen months in New Mexico from 1918 until he returned to New York in 1919, but he continued to paint the Southwest from memory for several years, increasingly exaggerating the dramatic terrain and brilliant hues as time passed. For Hartley, as for so many artists who visited the Southwest, the…
Alfred Stieglitz Collection, New York; bequeathed through Georgia O'Keeffe to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1949.
New York City, Museum of Modern Art, “Lyonel Feninger, Marsden Hartley,” 1944, p. 70 (ill.). New York City, Museum of Modern Art, “Alfred Stiegliz: His Collection,” June 10– Aug. 31, 1947, no cat. New York City, Whitney Museum of Art, “Marsden Hartley,” Mar. 4–May 25, 1980, pl. 88; Art Institute of Chicago, June 10–Aug. 3, 1980, Fort Worth, Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, Sept. 5–Oct. 26, 1980, Berkeley, University of California Art Museum, Nov. 12, 1980–Jan. 4, 1981. Santa Fe, Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, The Search for an American Modernism: Marsden Hartley and New Mexico, Jan. 25–May 11,…
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Marsden Hartley was an American Modernist painter, poet, and essayist. Hartley developed his painting abilities by observing Cubist artists in Paris and Berlin.
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