Timeline

1877

Born in Lewiston, ME

1943

Died in Maine

Summer travels in Maine: Portland, Lewiston, Auburn, Corea, and Bangor; climbs Mount Katahdin

First solo show at Hudson D. Walker Gallery in New York (contines annual solo shows through 1940); summers in Maine; begins series of portraits of Nova Scotia people; moves to Boston

Last solo show at Stieglitz’s An American Place; Hudson D. Walker becomes Hartley’s new dealer; moves to Portland, Maine

Employed by Works Progress Administration in New York; solo show at Alfred Stieglitz’s An American Place; returns to Eastern Points Island and works on third series of “Dogtown” pictures from memory; Mason sons Donny and Alty drown in hurricane and Hartley’s devastation prompts his return to New York

Poor finances force his destruction of a hundred works of art to escape storage bills; becomes depressed and ill; travels to Bermuda for rehabilitation, then to Nova Scotia where he boards with family of Francis and Martha Mason on Eastern Points Island

Departs Europe, never to return again; spends winters in New York for rest of his life, and summers frequently in Maine and Massachusetts; summers in Gloucester and starts second “Dogtown” series

Sails to Hamburg in April, stays through summer; travels to Bavarian Alps and Garmisch-Partenkirchen in September, stays through winter; long hikes inspire drawings and paintings of these mountains; Hartley begins his autobiography, Somehow a Past

Receives Guggenheim fellowship travel grant and chooses Mexico; summers in Gloucester, Massachusetts and begins first of three series of “Dogtown” paintings; arrives Mexico City, 1932, moves to Cuernavaca; included in the first Whitney Biennial

Solo exhibition at Alfred Stieglitz’s Intimate Gallery, New York; travels include: Aix-en-Provence, Marseilles, Toulouse, Paris, London, Hamburg, Berlin, Dresden; returns to New York in 1930

Returns to New York; summers in New Hampshire and Maine; travels to Paris and paints seashell still lifes

Moves to Aix-en-Provence and rents former studio of Cezanne; begins Mont Sainte-Victoire paintings inspired by Cezanne; travels to Paris, Berlin, and Hamburg

Rents house in Vence, France, for one year; produces landscapes of Italian Alps near Gattiere and Carros

Forms network of collectors who provide stipend for four years; travels to Paris via London, Brussels, Antwerp; continues New Mexico Recollections

Prints series of lithographs; paints still lifes of bowls, baskets, fruit, and bread; starts New Mexico Recollections series, 1923; visits Italy, 1923

Proceeds from New York auction at Anderson Galleries supports him for many years; returns to Berlin via Paris

Visits Carl Sprinchorn in California; summer and fall in New Mexico; returns to New York

Arrives in Taos, New Mexico, settles in Santa Fe; works in pastel and makes New Mexico landscapes

Participates in The Forum exhibition at Anderson Galleries, New York; solo show at 291 comprised of German Officer paintings; travels include: Provincetown, Massachusetts (summer 1916, spent with artists Carl Sprinchorn, Charles Demuth, William and Marguerite Zorach), Bermuda with Charles Demuth (winter 1916), and Maine (summer 1917)

Returns to New York for third solo exhibition at 291; travels again to Berlin and begins ‘Amerika” series which includes Native American imagery; father dies; friend Karl von Freyburg killed in war; begins German Officer paintings

Travels to Berlin and Munich, settles in Berlin; meets Kandinsky and Franz Marc; makes abstractions of Berlin military pageantry; participates in Armory show in New York

Solo show at 291; travels to Europe for first time, settles in Paris; meets Leo and Gertrude Stein; befriends Germans Arnold Ronnebeck and his cousin, Karl von Freyburg; begins still lifes inspired by Cezanne; produces abstractions based on Christian mythics

Matisse and Rodin drawing exhibition at 291 inspires his palette to change to bright fauvist colors; Picasso exhibition at 291 influences his own abstractions

In New York, met Alfred Stieglitz

Drops his first name and calls himself Marsden Hartley

Adopted stepmother’s maiden surname, Marsden, and called himself Edmund Marsden Hartley

Transfered to National Academy of Design, New York

Enrolled at Cleveland School of Art; left in1899 after receiving a New York School of Art five-year scholarship

Represented by Macbeth Galleries, New York, after Hudson D. Walker Gallery closes; new paintings feature figures on beaches and seascapes; writes prose poem Cleophas and His Own, based on his Nova Scotia experience; travels to Cincinnati for joint show with Stuart Davis at Cincinnati Art Museum

Solo exhibition at Paul Rosenberg Gallery, New York; Metropolitan Museum of Art awards Hartley purchase prize from Artists for Victory exhibition