Hartley, Marsden
born 1912 in USA - Providence /Rhode Island, died 1943 in USA - Ellsworth /Maine
poster of the exhibition Musée des Beaux-Arts Rouen
Onze Peintres Americains Contemporains
Réalisme et Tradition Romantique
1956 ( october 13 - november 11 )
colour offset
65 cm x 46 cm
printer: Les Presses Artistiques Paris
motif: White Church 1941/2
slight traces of age and handling, generally in good condition
order no. 22942
Participants of the exhibition:
Darrel Austin, Milton Avery, Alexander Brook, Carlyle Brown, William Congdon, Lamar Dodd, Marsden Hartley, Lilian Mackendrick, Alfred Maurer, Guiseppe Napoli, Seymour Remenick.
In the small exhibition catalogue H.H. Arnason of the Department of Art, University of Minnesota, writes in a manner typical of this period:
"In the world we live in it is becoming increasingly difficult to precisely describe the characteristic traits of a specific people or nation. This applies even more to the art produced by a nation or people. What exactly is French, Italian or German painting?” The poster shows the painting "Fisherman's Church", referred to in the catalogue as "Église Blanche", by Marsden Hartley. The print is imperfect, the colours and outlines misaligned. The catalogue's cover features a work by Carlyle Brown.
Lit.:
Onze Peintres Américains Contemporains, Réalisme et Tradition Romantique, Aust.-Kat. Musée d'Art et d'Histoire Toulon 1956, with a foreword by H. H. Arnason.
See also our catalogue 'From Arp to Pollock': Art and exhibition posters in France and Germany 1945-1960, Köln 2016. p.28 f.
