Northern Summer Window / Marsden Hartley
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Record Details
- Accession Number
- 1949/2.89
- Title
- Northern Summer Window
- Artist
- Marsden Hartley
- Artist Nationality
- American
- Artist Life Dates
- 1877 - 1943
- Medium and Support
- oil on canvas
- Object Creation Date
- 1936
- Object Creation Place
- North and Central America (continent)
- United States (nation)
- Maine (state)
- Creation Place 1
- North and Central America (continent)
- Creation Place 2
- United States (nation)
- Creation Place 3
- Maine (state)
- Credit Line
- Museum Purchase
- Style/Group/Movement
- American Modernist
- Inscription
- Inscribed verso: NORTHERN/SUMMER/WINDOW/MARSDEN/Hartley/1936
- Dimensions
- 61.8 cm x 51.5 cm (24 5/16 in. x 20 1/4 in.)
- Century
- 20th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Painting
- Primary Object Type
- still life
- Secondary Object Classification
- Painting
- Physical Description
- A vase with flowers sits before a window, between two books that lie on a table, and framed by open red curtains. The landscape outside the window shows a blue cloud sky above a body of water.
- Subject Matter
- One of the many paintings mixing elements of still life and landscape that Hartley did after returning to his home state of Maine in the thirties. He was fascinated with the land and lives of New England in his later years, and his works show a mix of European modernism and American regionalism.
- Primary Keywords
- book
- books
- curtain
- flowers
- flowers (plants)
- insects
- maine (state)
- oil painting
- oil paintings
- sea
- still lifes
- summer
- vases
- window
- Secondary Keywords
- animals
- architecture
- atmospheric effects
- bodies of water
- bodies of water and components of bodies of water
- bodies of water by size
- buildings and the land
- containers
- containers by form
- descriptors
- genres
- geographic and political locations
- herbaceous plants
- image-making processes and techniques
- information artifacts
- information artifacts by physical form
- information forms
- landscapes (environments)
- marine bodies
- modern and contemporary art
- natural landscapes
- north and central america (continent)
- objects
- objects we use
- painting and painting techniques
- painting techniques
- painting techniques by medium
- paintings
- paintings by material or technique
- plants
- processes and techniques
- processes and techniques by specific type
- seasons
- settlements and landscapes
- the natural world
- united states (nation)
- vegetation and vegetation components
- vegetation components
- vessels
- visual works
- visual works by medium or technique
- visual works by subject type
- woody plants
- Rights
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Technical Details
- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 3147 x 3728
- File Size
- 2 MB
- Record
- 1949/2.89
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1949-sl-2.89/1949_2_89.jpg
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"Northern Summer Window; Marsden Hartley." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1949-sl-2.89/1949_2_89.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 15, 2024.
