1993.38
Still Life: Peaches and One Pomegranate
Artist
Marsden Hartley
(Lewiston, Maine, 1877 - 1943, Ellsworth, Maine)
Title
Still Life: Peaches and One Pomegranate
Creation Date
1927
Century
20th century
Dimensions
24 5/16 in. x 18 3/4 in. (61.75 cm x 47.63 cm)
Object Type
drawing
Creation Place
North America, United States, Maine
Medium and Support
graphite on off-white wove paper
Credit Line
Museum Purchase, George Otis Hamlin Fund
Copyright
Public Domain
Accession Number
1993.38
Marsden Hartley, the Maine-born modernist closely associated with the circle of friends around Alfred Stieglitz in New York, lived an itinerant life that brought him in contact with diverging artistic inspirations. The ponderous “Still Life: Peaches and One Pomegranate” is a marked departure from many of Hartley’s earlier, expressionist works. During the 1920s, he traveled to Aix-en-Provence, France, where he immersed himself in the works of Cezanne and produced multiple drawings of still lifes and landscapes that privileged simplicity of form and investigated spatial relations.