Still Life with Pears

Signed in pencil lower right "Marsden Hartley"
Provenance: The artist; Adelaide Kuntz, New York (acquired as a gift from the artist);
By descent in the family to the present owner;
Sotheby's, New York, New York, April 5, 2012, lot 5;
Private Collection
This work is included the Marsden Hartley Legacy Project, prepared by Art Historian Gail R. Scott. Director, of the Marsden Hartley Legacy Project with Bates College Museum of Art
Marsden Hartley was a prominent member of the Stieglitz group and trailblazing American modernist. His work is closely associated with Georgia O’Keeffe, John Marin, Arthur Dove, and Charles Demuth. His landscapes and still-lifes show the influence of Cezanne, Matisse and Picasso. Hartley his first New York solo exhibition at Stieglitz’s 291 Gallery in 1909. He studied under William Merritt Chase and later at the National Academy of Design, but his style was most greatly affected by Albert Pinkham Ryder and the Impressionist Giovanni Segantini. Clearly Marsden Hartley is one of Maine’s greatest modern painters.