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Military
1914–1915
Marsden Hartley
Marsden Hartley (American, 1877–1943)
American Painting and Sculpture
Military, 1914–1915. Marsden Hartley (American, 1877–1943). Oil on canvas; framed: 73.5 x 63.5 x 3.5 cm (28 15/16 x 25 x 1 3/8 in.); unframed: 60.6 x 50.2 cm (23 7/8 x 19 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Professor Nelson Goodman 1981.83 This abstract portrait is a memorial tribute to a German lieutenant named Karl von Freyburg with whom Hartley had been in love. The artist described von Freyburg’s death as an "unendurable agony," and created a series of deeply personal paintings in response. Here the shapes and color patterns suggest flags, banners, targets, epaulets, and other military paraphernalia. Hartley was one of the first modern artists to paint abstractions.
- Maker/Artist
- Hartley, Marsden
- Classification
- Painting
- Formatted Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- Framed: 73.5 x 63.5 x 3.5 cm (28 15/16 x 25 x 1 3/8 in.); Unframed: 60.6 x 50.2 cm (23 7/8 x 19 3/4 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: signed on reverse of fabric: Marsden Hartley
- Departments
- American Painting and Sculpture
- Accession Number
- 1981.83
- Credit Line
- Gift of Professor Nelson Goodman
- Exhibitions
- Year in Review for 1984, Dictated by Life: Marsden Hartley's German Paintings and Robert Indiana's Hartley Elegies, Made in U.S.A., l'art américain, 1908-1943, entre nationalisme et internationalisme [FRAME], The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art
- Rights Statement
- Copyrighted
- Museum Location
- 226A American Modern
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