{"id":2327,"date":"2017-12-15T16:15:51","date_gmt":"2017-12-15T21:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/thelantern\/?p=2327"},"modified":"2017-12-20T15:09:08","modified_gmt":"2017-12-20T20:09:08","slug":"the-painter-from-maine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/thelantern\/2017\/12\/15\/the-painter-from-maine\/","title":{"rendered":"The Painter from Maine"},"content":{"rendered":"

As part of a tradition of collaboration and partnership with the Colby Museum, this fall Special Collections presented an exhibit featuring Marsden Hartley\u2019s literary and artistic work along with other Maine writers and artists featured in our collections. The exhibit ran from September through November 2017.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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Installation photograph featuring the title of Special Collections\u2019 exhibit.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Special Collections was excited to collaborate with the Colby College Museum of Art in its celebration of the work of Marsden Hartley, the famed “painter from Maine.” On display in the cases across from Miller Library\u2019s circulation desk, Hartley\u2019s connections with Maine\u2019s literary and artistic worlds were featured along with the statewide creative context in which he painted and wrote. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Cover image for Myron H. Avery\u2019s <\/span>Mount Katahdin in Maine<\/span><\/i>.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Special Collections houses Colby\u2019s rare books and manuscript collections as well as the college archives. Drawing on these rich collections, the exhibit highlighted Hartley\u2019s own literary work as a lesser-known aspect of his creative career, as well as letters, manuscripts, and published works by some of the Maine writers Hartley knew and read. Other writers with strong connections to Maine whose manuscripts, letters, and books are housed in Special Collections include Edwin Arlington Robinson, Sarah Orne Jewett, Celia Thaxter, and Mary Ellen Chase. The exhibit showcased writers like these as well as Hartley\u2019s own roots in Lewiston and other places and people in Maine who were important parts of his life and his artistic career.<\/span><\/p>\n

The first case, \u201cHartley\u2019s Maine Roots,\u201d explored Hartley\u2019s connection to his hometown of Lewiston, where he was born in 1877. This case documented the mills that formed such a large part of Lewiston\u2019s economy and daily life, and where Hartley himself was employed. It also included a photograph of Hartley\u2019s mother, with whom he had a complicated relationship. The people and places of Hartley\u2019s Maine background influenced his later work, as he depicted Maine landscapes and life in both paintings and poetry.<\/span><\/p>\n

The second case, \u201cHartley\u2019s Literary & Artistic Connections,\u201d considered some of the other writers and artists whose work Hartley admired and was inspired by, some of whom were close friends. Writers such as Sarah Orne Jewett, Kenneth Roberts, Rachel Lyman Field, Mary Ellen Chase, Robert Peter Tristram Coffin, and Edwin Arlington Robinson were all important literary figures in Hartley\u2019s day.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Cover page of Henry David Thoreau\u2019s <\/span>The Maine Woods<\/span><\/i>. Thoreau was a writer whose work Hartley admired.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The third case, \u201cHartley\u2019s Geography,\u201d examined some of the locations in Maine that were important to Hartley, and that appeared frequently in his work as he sought to establish himself as \u201cthe painter from Maine.\u201d Hartley repeatedly returned to scenes of Mount Katahdin and a variety of Maine’s woods and waters in his painting. His work was contrasted with that of Marguerite Zorach and William Zorach, two talented artists with Maine connections and ties to the community of artists and writers who surrounded Alfred Stieglitz in New York\u2014of which Hartley was also a part. Toward the end of his life, Hartley settled on the Gouldsboro Peninsula in Corea, Maine,\u00a0where he continued to write and paint and where he was cared for by a local couple.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Installation photograph featuring a display relating Hartley\u2019s work to that of Marguerite and William Zorach.<\/span><\/p>\n

Cover image of Marilyn Hoffman Friedman\u2019s <\/span>Marguerite and William Zorach: The Cubist Years, 1915-1918<\/span><\/i>.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Special Collections houses Colby\u2019s rare books and manuscript collections as well as the college archives. Drawing on these rich collections, the exhibit highlights Hartley\u2019s own literary work as a lesser-known aspect of his creative career, as well as letters, manuscripts, and published works by some of the Maine writers Hartley knew and read. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8593,"featured_media":2332,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[526146],"tags":[351313,180112,99394,384770,1005,436,386719,351338,143714,386723,386720],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/thelantern\/files\/2017\/12\/Case-3.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3U3TZ-Bx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/thelantern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2327"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/thelantern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/thelantern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/thelantern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8593"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/thelantern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2327"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/thelantern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2355,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/thelantern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2327\/revisions\/2355"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/thelantern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/thelantern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/thelantern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/thelantern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}