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Crab

Creator: Marsden Hartley
Offered by: Robert Funk Fine Art

Description
This deceptively simple study of a downward view of a crab by modernist master Marsden Hartley is as much a well-observed document of a crab as it is a marvelous abstraction. Hartley strikes the perfect balance between intricate and simple, and monochromatic and a hint of earthy color. The more one studies this work, the more it conjures up a Rorschach test-like interpretation. Different viewers will perceive different things and may discover a thing or two about themselves. Perhaps that is what drew the artist to the subject matter of a crab in the first place: self-discovery and the concept that beneath a simple pattern of a crab lies the exploration of one's unconscious and the enigmatic.
(Alternate titles: "Coastal Still Life - Crab" and "Spider Crab")., Mixed media on cream laid paper mounted to illustration board, 14.25" x 19.5". Framed 17.25" x 21
Unsigned. This work is included in the Marsden Hartley Legacy Project: Supervised by Art Historian Gail Scott - Complete Paintings and Works on Paper, Bates College Museum of Art, Lewiston, Maine.

More Information

Documentation:	Certificate of Authenticity
Origin:	United States, Maine
Period:	1920-1949
Materials:	Mixed Media, Gouache, ink on cream laid paper
Creation Date:	ca. 1936
Styles / Movements:	Conceptualism, Modernism, Color
Catalog References:	This work is included in the Marsden Hartley Legacy Project: Supervised by Art Historian Gail Scott - Complete Paintings and Works on Paper, Bates College Museum of Art, Lewiston, Maine.
Incollect Reference #:	821308

Dimensions

W.	19.5 in;	H.	14.25 in;
W.	49.53 cm;	H.	36.2 cm;

Message from Seller:

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