Indian Fantasy
Artist
Marsden Hartley
American, 1877–1943
Date1914
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions46 11/16 x 39 5/16 in. (118.6 x 99.9 cm)
Frame: 54 3/8 x 46 7/8 x 2 in. (138.1 x 119.1 x 5.1 cm)
Frame: 54 3/8 x 46 7/8 x 2 in. (138.1 x 119.1 x 5.1 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LinePurchased with funds from the State of North Carolina
Object number75.1.4
On View
On view[1] Martha Jackson Gallery inv. no. 1394.
Published References"American Artist Astounds Germans," New York Times (December 19, 1915).
Quality: An Experience in Collecting (exhibition catalogue) (New York: Hirschl & Adler Galleries, 1974), no. 18, illus. (color).
"Recent Acquisitions" (exhibition catalogue), North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 13, nos. 1 and 2 (1975), cat. no. 8, illus. (color) cover.
Avant-Garde Painting & Sculpture in America 1910-25 (exhibition catalogue) (Wilmington: Delaware Art Museum, 1975), unnumbered, illus. (b-w) 82.
"Biennial Report: Acquisitions," North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 13, no. 3 (1976), listed 25, illus. (b-w).
Gail Levin, "Marsden Hartley, Kandinsky, and Der Blaue Reiter," Arts 52 (November 1977), 156-160, discussed 160, illus. (color) fig. 18.
The Eye of Stieglitz (exhibition catalogue) (New York: Hirschl & Adler Galleries, 1978), no. 32, illus. (color).
Roxana Barry, "The Age of Blood and Iron: Marsden Hartley in Berlin," Arts 54 (October 1979), 166-171, discussed 170, illus. (b-w).
Barbara Haskell, Marsden Hartley (exhibition catalogue) (New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1980), discussed 42-43, illus. (b-w) pl. 16; cat. no. 28.
Bulletin of The Art Institute of Chicago 74 (April-June 1980), illus. (color) cover.
Margit Staber, "Rot konstruiert" und "Super Table" Eine Schweizer Sammlung moderner Kunst, 1909-1939 (exhibition catalogue) (Winterthur: Kunstmuseum Winterthur, 1980), illus. (b-w) 68.
Robert K. Martin, "Painting and Primitivism: Hart Crane and the Development of an American Expressionist Esthetic," Mosaic 14 (Summer 1981), 49-62, discussed 59, illus. (b-w) 58.
Margaret Liebman Berger, Aline Meyer Liebman: Pioneer Collector and Artist (W. F. Humphrey Press, 1982), noted 5.
Sharon Broom, "North Carolina Museum of Art to Reopen in New Building," Pantheon 41 (January-March 1983), 82, 84, illus. (b-w).
Edgar Peters Bowron, ed., Introduction to the Collections (Chapel Hill: published for the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, by The University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 1983), illus. (color) 26.
Gail Levin, "American Art," in Primitivism in 20th Century Art: Affinity of the Tribal and the Modern (exhibition catalogue) (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1984), 452-473, discussed 459, illus. (color) 458.
Thomas McEvilley, "Doctor Lawyer Indian Chief: '"Primitivism"' in 20th Century Art at The Museum of Modern Art in 1984," Artforum 23 (November 1984): 54-61, illus. (color) 54.
Patricia Janis Broder, The American West: The Modern Vision (Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1984), Chapter 7: "Marsden Hartley: In Search of American Icons," 128-149, discussed 134-137, illus. color 133.
Patricia Janis Broder, "Painting the New American West: The Vision of Twentieth Century Artists," American West [vol.?] (January/February 1985), 35-42.
Allen Johnson, "The Death of Ethnography," The Sciences 27 (March-April 1987), 24-31, illus. (color) 31.
Joseph Covington, "Instructional Resources: Marsden Hartley: 'Indian Fantasy'," Art Education 41 (July 1988), 37-38, illus.
Gail R. Scott, Marsden Hartley (New York: Abbeville Press, 1988), discussed 49, 51, illus. (color) fig. 35.
Townsend Ludington, Marsden Hartley: The Biography of an American Artist (Boston: Little, Brown, 1992), discussed generally 117, illus. (b-w). Paperback edition (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1998), 128, illus. (b-w) photo section after 112.
Introduction to the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1992), illus. (color) 256.
Gail Levin, "Marsden Hartley's 'Amerika': Between Native American and German Folk Art," American Art Review 5 (Winter 1993), 120-125, 170-171, illus. (color) 125.
Sharyn R. Udall, "Marsden Hartley's Self-Portrait," El Palacio (Magazine of the Museum of New Mexico) 98 (Spring 1993), 27-33, 61-62, illus. (color) 33.
Patricia McDonnell, "Indian Fantasy: Marsden Hartley's Myth of Amerika in Expressionist Berlin," North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 16 (1993), 50-62, illus. (color) fig. 1.
Bruce Robertson, Marsden Hartley (New York: Abrams, 1995), illus. (color) 55.
Courtney Gilbert, "Marsden Hartley's Construction of Identity: Hybridity in the Amerika Series," Chicago Art Journal 6 (Spring 1996), 15-26, illus. (b-w) fig. 1.
Sharyn R. Udall, Contested Terrain: Myth and Meanings in Southwest Art (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1996), 78-80, illus. (b-w) fig. 32.
Townsend Ludington, Seeking the Spiritual: The Paintings of Marsden Hartley (exhibition catalogue) (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1998), cat. no. 3, illus. (color) 31.
Grace Glueck, "Making a Religion of Mountains That Touch the Heavens," New York Times (April 24, 1998), E31.
John Goodrich, "Marsden Hartley: Seeking the Spiritual," (exhibition review), Review: The Critical State of Visual Art in New York (June 1, 1998).
John W. Coffey, entry for Indian Fantasy, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, Rebecca Martin Nagy, ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1998), 215, illus. (color).
Sarah Greenough, et al, Modern Art and America: Alfred Stieglitz and His New York Galleries (exhibition catalogue) (Washington: National Gallery of Art, 2000), illus. (color) 232.
Wanda M. Corn, "Marsden Hartley's Native Amerika," in Marsden Hartley, Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser, ed. (exhibition catalogue) (Hartford: Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in association with Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2002), cat. no. 16, listed 294, discussed 70-71, 73, 80, illus. (color) pl. 16, (color detail) 68.
Bill Brown, A Sense of Things: The Object Matter of American Literature (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2003), mentioned 133, illus. (b-w) 134.
Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser, "Marsden Hartley and Folk Art," The Magazine Antiques (January 2003), briefly discussed 154-55, illus. 152.
Stephen May, "Marsden Hartley: Four Decades as a Painter" (exhibition review), Newton CT: Antiques and the Arts Weekly (February 21, 2003), briefly discussed and illus.
Tracey O'Shaughnessy, "Marsden Hartley earns his keep on modernism's peak" (exhibition review), The Sunday Republican (January 26, 2003), illus. 5H.
Gail R. Scott, "On the Ground and Into the Subject: Marsden Hartley in New Mexico, 1918-1919," in Marsden Hartley, New Mexico 1918-1920: An American Discovering America (exhibition catalogue) (New York: Mark Borghi Fine Art, Inc., and Alexandre Fine Art, Inc., 2003), briefly discussed and illus. (color) fig. 3, unpaginated. (Catalogue only, not in exhibition.)
Donna M. Cassidy, Marsden Hartley: Race, Religion, and Nation (Lebanon, NH: University Press of New England, 2005), mentioned 173, illus. (b-w) 174, fig. 6.4.
Important American Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, May 21, 2008 (auction catalogue) (New York: Christie's, 2008), briefly discussed 34-35, illus. (color) 33, fig. 6.
Flannery Burke, From Greenwich Village to Taos: Primitivism and Place at Mabel Dodge Luhan's (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2008), illus. (color).
John W. Coffey, entry for Indian Fantasy, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2010), 450, illus. (color) 451.
Robert Davidson: Abstract Impulse (exhibition catalogue) (Seattle: Seattle Art Museum, 2013) mentioned and illus. (color) 29, fig. 2 (catalogue only, not in exhibition).
Marsden Hartley: Die Deutschen Bilder, 1913–1915 (exhibition catalogue) (Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walter Koenig, for the Nationalgalerie, Berlin, 2014), illus. (color) 101.
Roberta Smith, “Out of Berlin, the Heart of an Artist,” New York Times (June 15, 2014), illus. (color) 20 (Art section).
John Dorfman, “Berlin Diary” (exhibition review), Art & Antiques 37, no. 8 (September 2014), illus. (color) 64.
Sascha T. Scott, A Strange Mixture: The Art and Politics of Painting Pueblo Indians (Norman, OK: The University of Oklahoma Press, 2015), discussed 68–69, 208n102, illus. (color) 69, fig. 2.10, also details (color) frontispiece and back cover.
Dada Afrika (exhibition catalogue) (Zürich: Museum Rietberg, 2016), briefly discussed 59, illus. (color) 60, fig. 5 (catalogue only, not in exhibition).
Barbara Schaefer and Anita Hachmann, eds., Es war einmal in Amerika: 300 Jahre US-Amerikanische Kunst (exhibition catalogue) (Köln: Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Courboud, 2018), discussed 199–200, illus. (color),199, fig. 6 (catalogue only, not in exhibition).
David Gessner, "An Elemental Fantasy" in “You Are the River: Literature Inspired by the North Carolina Museum of Art,” edited by Helena Feder (Raleigh, NC: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2021), illus (color) 84.
Jessica W. Welton, Fred Kabotie, Elizabeth Willis DeHuff, and the Genesis of the Santa Fe Style (Richmond: Virginia Commonwealth University, 2014), illus.
Dieter Scholz, ed., Marsden Hartley: The German Paintings 1913-1915 (exhibition catalogue) (Berlin: Neue Nationalgalerie, 2014), illus.Exhibition HistoryBerlin, Münchener Graphik-Verlag, October-November 1915.
New York, NY, 291 Gallery, "Marsden Hartley," April 4-May 22, 1916.
New York, NY, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, "Quality: An Experience in Collecting," November 12-December 7, 1974, no. 18, illus. (color).
Wilmington, DE, Delaware Art Museum, "Avant-Garde Painting and Sculpture in America, 1910-25," April 4-May 18, 1975, unnumbered, illus. (b-w) 82.
Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Recent Acquisitions," November 23, 1975-February 1, 1976, no. 8, illus. (color) cover .
Winston-Salem, NC, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, "Opening Exhibition," February 2-March 2, 1977.
New York, NY, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, "The Eye of Stieglitz," October 7-November 2, 1978, no. 32, illus. (color).
Chapel Hill, NC, University of North Carolina, Morehead Planetarium, "Cartier Soirée," October 16-31, 1979.
Winston-Salem, NC, Reynolda House Museum of American Art, "Twentieth-Century American Art from the North Carolina Museum of Art," December 7, 1979-January 31, 1980.
New York, NY, Whitney Museum of American Art, "Marsden Hartley," March 4-May 25, 1980; Chicago, IL, The Art Institute of Chicago, June 10-August 3, 1980; Fort Worth, TX, Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, September 5-October 26, 1980; Berkeley, CA, University of California, University Art Museum, no. 28, illus. (b-w) pl. 16.
New York, NY, Museum of Modern Art, "'Primitivism' in 20th Century Art: Affinity of the Tribal and the Modern," September 19, 1984-January 15, 1985; Detroit, MI, Detroit Institute of Arts, February 23-June 19,1985; Dallas, TX, Dallas Museum of Art, June 15-September 8, 1985, illus. (color) 458.
Chapel Hill, NC, The Ackland Art Museum, "Seeking the Spiritual: the Paintings of Marsden Hartley,"January 6-April 3, 1998; New York, NY, Babcock Gallery, April 13-June 30, 1998, cat. no. 3, illus. (color) 31.
Washington, DC, National Gallery of Art, "Modern Art and America: Alfred Stieglitz and His New York Galleries," January 28-April 22, 2001, illus. (color) 232.
Hartford, CT, Wadsworth Atheneum, "Marsden Hartley: American Modernist," January 18-April 20, 2003; Washington, DC, The Phillips Collection, June 7-September 7, 2003; Kansas City, MO, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, October 11, 2003-January 11, 2004, no. 16, listed 294, discussed 70-71, 73, 80, illus. (color) pl. 16, (color detail) 68.
Berlin, Neue Nationalgalerie, “Marsden Hartley: The German Paintings,” April 4–June 29, 2014; Los Angeles, CA, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, August 3–November 30, 2014, illus. (color) 101.
Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Becoming the NCMA: 10 Decades of Collecting, 1924-2022," June 11-August 21, 2022.
Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection, Reimagined," October 7, 2022–present. Object Rights Statement
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