Marsden Hartley (American, 1877–1943)
Movement
INV-6591
Marsden Hartley (American, 1877–1943)1913
ModernismCubismoil on canvaspainting
Date
1913
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
119.5 × 119 cm (47 × 46 7/8 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Alfred Stieglitz Collection
Unlike many other American artists, Marsden Hartley was more drawn to German Expressionism than to French modernism, and executed this painting in Berlin. Made on the eve of World War I, Movement possesses a turbulent energy that sparks associations with both the vibrancy of modern Berlin and movements of music. Like the Russian Expressionist painter Vasily Kandinsky, Hartley sought to make his work more like music, which he admired for its nonnarrative nature and its potential to be purely spiritual or separate from material reality.
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