Evening Storm, Schoodic, Maine No. 2

Brooklyn Museum photograph
Object Label
Though separated by several generations, Jervis McEntee and Marsden Hartley both employed emotive styles to express personal impressions of landscape rather than faithful transcripts of nature. In A Cliff in the Katskills (at left), McEntee rendered a well-known natural landmark in the Catskill Mountains with thickly applied daubs of paint, in a departure from the studious detail typical of mid-nineteenth- century landscape painting. The drama of McEntee’s painting, with its imposing boulder and foreboding clouds, is echoed in Marsden Hartley’s seascape. A Maine native, Hartley used an expressionist style of rough brushstrokes, bold outlines, and compressed space to depict the churning sea crashing against the rocky shore.
Caption
Marsden Hartley American, 1877–1943. Evening Storm, Schoodic, Maine No. 2, 1942. Oil on fabricated board, 30 x 40 1/2in. (76.2 x 102.9cm) frame: 39 1/4 x 49 1/2 x 2 1/2 in. (99.7 x 125.7 x 6.4 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Bequest of Edith and Milton Lowenthal, 1992.11.18. No known copyright restrictions (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 1992.11.18_SL1.jpg)
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Not on view
Collection
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Collection
Artist
Title
Evening Storm, Schoodic, Maine No. 2
Date
1942
Medium
Oil on fabricated board
Classification
Dimensions
30 x 40 1/2in. (76.2 x 102.9cm) frame: 39 1/4 x 49 1/2 x 2 1/2 in. (99.7 x 125.7 x 6.4 cm)
Signatures
Signed lower right: "M·H·42"
Credit Line
Bequest of Edith and Milton Lowenthal
Accession Number
1992.11.18
Rights
No known copyright restrictions
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You're looking at "Evening Storm, Schoodic, Maine No. 2" by American artist Marsden Hartley. This was painted one year before his death and features an expressive use of brush work. Hartley became interested in painting his native region and he sought to capture the beauty of Maine, his home state, through a series of paintings.He traveled in the same circles as Alfred Stieglitz, and Georgia O'Keeffe, whose work we also have on view!
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