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"tombstone": "New Mexico Recollection, c. 1923. Marsden Hartley (American, 1877\u20131943). Oil on canvas; framed: 101.6 x 120.7 x 7.6 cm (40 x 47 1/2 x 3 in.); unframed: 80 x 99.7 cm (31 1/2 x 39 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund with additional support from the Gill and Tommy LiPuma Fund, 2004.89",
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"title": "New Mexico Recollection",
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"title": "The Search for an American Modernism: Marsden Hartley and New Mexico",
"description": "The Search for an American Modernism: Marsden Hartley and New Mexico. Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, NM (organizer) (January 25-May 11, 2008); Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, TX (June 14-August 24, 2008).",
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"description": "Marsden Hartley and Walt Kuhn: The Landscapes. Salander O'Reilly Galleries, New York (January 5-February 27, 1988).",
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"description": "High Notes of American Modernism: Selections from the Tommy and Gill LiPuma Collection. Berry-Hill Galleries, Inc., New York (November 14-December 31, 2002).",
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"description": "Modern American Masters: Highlights from the Gill and Tommy LiPuma Collections. Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland (March 28-July14, 2004).",
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"description": "William Bullitt, Jr. [1891\u20131967], Washington, DC, acquired by 1946",
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"description": "Christopher Huntington [b. 1938], Annapolis County, Nova Scotia, Canada, until 1985",
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"description": "[Barridoff Galleries, South Portland, ME, September 28, 1985, lot 109]",
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"did_you_know": "Hartley studied briefly at the Cleveland School (now Institute) of Art in 1898.",
"description": "Although Hartley visited New Mexico during 1917\u201318, this landscape was painted a few years later when he lived temporarily in Berlin, Germany. This distance in time and place seems to have spurred the artist\u2019s imagination: with its agitated paint application, turbulent composition, and somber palette, New Mexico Recollection evokes an emotional state more than it records a particular site.",
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"citation": "Kootz, Samuel M. New Frontiers in American Painting. New York: Hastings House, 1943.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 25-34; Reproduced: no. 38",
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"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 10; Reproduced: p. 23, no. 13",
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"citation": "Hartley, Marsden, Peter Selz, and Hackett-Freedman Gallery, Inc. Marsden Hartley: Observation and Intuition. San Francisco: Hackett-Freedman Gallery, 2001.",
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"citation": "Agee, William C., and Bruce Weber. High Notes of American Modernism: Selections from the Tommy and Gill LiPuma Collection: November 14-December 31, 2002. New York: Berry-Hill Galleries, Inc, 2002.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 89, Reproduced: p. 59",
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"citation": "Harnsberger, R. Scott. Four Artists of the Stieglitz Circle: A Sourcebook on Arthur Dove, Marsden Hartley, John Marin, and Max Weber. Westport: Greenwood Press, 2002.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 141",
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"citation": "Glueck, Grace. \"Art Review: Serendipity's Reward: A Spirited Collection of Four Disparate Americans.\" The New York Times, Friday, November 29, 2002.",
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"citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art Annual Report, 2004.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 16, 22-23",
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"citation": "Hole, Heather. Marsden Hartley and the West: the Search for an American Modernism. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2007.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 104; Reproduced: p. 103, fig.90",
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},
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"citation": "Adams, Henry. What's American about American Art? A Gallery Tour in the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2008.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 13, no. 16",
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"citation": "Sullivan, Edward J. Making the Americas Modern: Hemispheric Art, 1910-1960. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2018.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 65; Reproduced: p. 66",
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