Fruit Basket
1923
Medium
lithograph in black on wove paper
Dimensions
image (irregular): 34.77 × 34.29 cm (13 11/16 × 13 1/2 in.) sheet: 39.37 × 38.74 cm (15 1/2 × 15 1/4 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Mary E. Maxwell Fund)
Accession Number
2015.19.1021
Art Historical Context
Marsden Hartley's *Fruit Basket* (1923) is a striking lithograph in black ink on smooth wove paper, capturing a humble still life with modernist flair. Measuring nearly 14 inches square in its irregular image area, this print exemplifies Hartley's exploration of everyday subjects during the early 1920s, a period when the American artist had returned from Europe and embraced bolder, simplified forms influenced by his modernist roots. As part of the Corcoran Collection at the National Gallery of Art—acquired through the Mary E. Maxwell Fund—it highlights the era's growing interest in accessible ...
About the Artist
Marsden Hartley
Marsden Hartley (1877–1943) was one of the most significant and searching figures of American modernism, an artist whose restless travels and personal intensity drove him to synthesize European avant-garde currents with a deeply American sensibility rooted in landscape, loss, and spiritual longing. Born in Lewiston, Maine, he studied at the Cleveland School of Art and later at the National Academy...