Townsend Ludington
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[1992]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 325 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Townsend Ludington's probing, insightful biography of Marsden Hartley is the first full-scale work on the life of one of the great American painters of our century. Two weeks after Hartley's death, in 1943, Paul Rosenberg wrote in the Nation that Hartley was an "almost gigantic secondary artist." Now, as time affords us greater perspective on that eruptive period in American art, the first half of the twentieth century, we can see that Hartley was...