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MARSDEN HARTLEY
Waxenstein
.
Lithograph, 1933. 322x260 mm; 12
3
/
4
x10
1
/
4
inches, full margins. Edition of approximately
100. Signed, titled, dated and inscribed “#34” in pencil, lower margin. A superb, evenly-
printed impression of this scarce lithograph.
Marsden Hartley (1877-1943) was a part of Alfred Stieglitz’s circle of American artists who
early on began to employ European Modernist styles. In 1909, Stieglitz’s 291 Gallery hosted
Hartley’s first exhibition of Maine landscape paintings. Hartley spent 1913, the year of the
Armory Show, in Paris, where he was exposed to prominent European artists and thinkers
at Leo and Gertrude Stein’s salon. Hartley’s time there and his subsequent 1913-15 travels
around Germany deeply influenced his later work. The 1933 lithograph
Waxenstein
, part
of the Alps bordering Austria and Germany, is reflective of Hartley’s exposure to Cézanne
and Cubism both in NewYork and in Europe. University of Kansas 14.
[2,500/3,500]
