The Spirit of America: The Wolf Family Collection
The Spirit of America: The Wolf Family Collection
Marsden Hartley
Summer Sea Window
Auction Closed
April 20, 12:24 AM GMT
Estimate
700,000 - 1,000,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Marsden Hartley
1877 - 1943
Summer Sea Window
bearing the inscription Sea Window #2 / Summer / Marsden Hartley (on the reverse)
oil on board
28¼ x 22 in. (71.8 x 55.9 cm.)
Executed circa 1939-40.
This work is included in the Marsden Hartley Legacy Project: Complete Paintings and Works on Paper, Bates College Museum of Art, Lewiston, Maine, Gail R. Scott, director.
The artist
[with] Paul Rosenberg & Co., New York (in 1942)
Stanley N. Barbee, Beverly Hills (acquired from the above in 1943)
Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, April 20, 1944, lot 32
Richard H. Emerson, Lakeville, Connecticut
Sotheby's New York, May 25, 1980, lot 223 (consigned by the estate of the above)
Wolf Family Collection No. 0461 (acquired from the above)
[with] Paul Rosenberg & Co., New York (in 1942)
Stanley N. Barbee, Beverly Hills (acquired from the above in 1943)
Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, April 20, 1944, lot 32
Richard H. Emerson, Lakeville, Connecticut
Sotheby's New York, May 25, 1980, lot 223 (consigned by the estate of the above)
Wolf Family Collection No. 0461 (acquired from the above)
Elizabeth McCausland Papers, 1838-1995, bulk 1920-1960, Series 6: Marsden Hartley, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, box 15, folder 51, frames, 4, 9-10
Robert Berlind, "Hartley's Indicative Objects," Art in America, 2003, p. 153, illustrated
Robert Berlind, "Hartley's Indicative Objects," Art in America, 2003, p. 153, illustrated
San Francisco, Golden Gate International Exposition, 1940-41
New York, Paul Rosenberg Gallery, Paintings by Hartley, Rattner, Weber, 1942, no. 3
Washington, D.C., Phillips Memorial Gallery, 1942
New York, Berry-Hill Galleries, The Heart of the Matter: The Still Lifes of Marsden Hartley, 2003, pl. 48, p. 128, illustrated
New York, Paul Rosenberg Gallery, Paintings by Hartley, Rattner, Weber, 1942, no. 3
Washington, D.C., Phillips Memorial Gallery, 1942
New York, Berry-Hill Galleries, The Heart of the Matter: The Still Lifes of Marsden Hartley, 2003, pl. 48, p. 128, illustrated