Plums and Pears
Marsden Hartley
1927
Medium
graphite on wove paper
Dimensions
overall: 37.3 x 29.9 cm (14 11/16 x 11 3/4 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Warren and Grace Brandt, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art
Accession Number
1991.35.2
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...