Millstone in the Woods

1920s

Marsden Hartley

Associated Names
Marsden Hartley

Artist, American, 1877 - 1943

The image shows a wooded area with tall tree trunks, brushstrokes creating bold lines on textured brown paper. Near the viewer are round stones and a stump or barrel-like object. The color palette is minimal with black ink strokes on warm, earthy paper.
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Artwork overview

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Babcock Galleries, New York); Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1967; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1982

  • Modernist Watercolors, Prints and Drawings, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1982, no. 18

Bibliography

1983

  • Simmons, Linda Crocker and with the assistance of Adrianne J. Humphrey, et al. American Drawings, Watercolors, Pastels, and Collages in the Collection of the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Washington, DC: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1983: p. 169, no. 1151.

Inscriptions

upper left verso on label in black ink by unknown hand: 374

Watermarks

DESSIN J.M.A.

Wikidata ID

Q64596718

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