ArtBabble: Marsden Hartley

Hide/Seek: Marsden Hartley by George Platt Lynes

National Portrait Gallery — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 22:04:43 +0000

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Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture

Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture

Institution:

National Portrait Gallery

Discussion by Jonathan Katz, co-curator of “Hide/Seek” and Chair of the Visual Studies Doctoral Program at SUNY-Buffalo.

Marsden Hartley died the year after this photograph was taken, and this portrait of the artist is full of abstract themes of death and loss, both for the subject and the photographer, George Platt Lynes.

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Hide/Seek: "Eight Bells Folly: Memorial to Hart Crane" by Marsden Hartley

National Portrait Gallery — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 20:58:08 +0000

Series:

Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture

Institution:

National Portrait Gallery

Discussion by David C. Ward, co-curator of “Hide/Seek" and Historian at the National Portrait Gallery.

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Hide/Seek: "Painting No. 47, Berlin" by Marsden Hartley

National Portrait Gallery — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 20:40:20 +0000

Series:

Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture

Institution:

National Portrait Gallery

Discussion by David C. Ward, co-curator of “Hide/Seek" and Historian at the National Portrait Gallery.

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