MARSDEN HARTLEY | STILL LIFE WITH BLUE BOWL

The artist

Adelaide Kuntz, Bronxville, New York (acquired from the above)

Bertha Schaefer Gallery, New York, 1944 (acquired from the above; sold: Sotheby Parke-Bernet, New York, December 13, 1972, lot 126)

Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York (acquired from the above)

Mr. & Mrs. Laughlin Phillips, Georgetown, Maine, 1983 (acquired from the above; sold: Sotheby's, New York, December 1, 2004, lot 213)

Mark Borghi Fine Art, New York

Acquired by the present owner from the above, 2005

Renee Arb, "Spotlight on: Hartley." Art News 47, April 1948, n.p., illustrated 

Ben Wolf, "The Early Hartley." Art Digest 22, April 15, 1948

Charlotte Curtis, "Of Heart and Hand: Laughlin and Jennifer Phillips's Georgetown Residence." Architectural Digest, April 1985, p. 153, illustrated (as Still Life with Blue Bench) 

Robert Rosenblum, "Art: Modernist Still Lifes - American Experiments with Radical European Ideas," Architectural Digest, November 1990, p. 246, illustrated

Elizabeth McCausland Papers, Series 6: Marsden Hartley, 1900-1964, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., box 19, folder 15, frame 52 and box 14, folder 31, frame 7

(possibly) Kantstrasse, Berlin, Spring 1923

New York, Bertha Schaefer Gallery, Exhibition of Paintings by Marsden Hartley Before 1932, April 1948, n.p., no. 6, illustrated (as Still Life with Pears)

New York, Bertha Schaefer Gallery, Hartley/Maurer: Contemporaneous Paintings, November – December 1950, n.p., no. 4 

Avon, Connecticut, Bertha Schaefer Gallery, Avon Old Farms, April 1951