Marsden Hartley / Military / 1914-1915Marsden Hartley
Military
1914-1915

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Creator Name: Hartley, Marsden
Creator Nationality: North American; American
Creator Role: Artist
Creator Dates/Places: 1877 - 1943
Gender: M
Creator Name-CRT: Marsden Hartley
Title: Military
Title Type: Primary
View: Full View
Creation Start Date: 1914
Creation End Date: 1915
Creation Date: 1914-1915
Object Type: Paintings
Materials and Techniques: oil on canvas
Dimensions: Unframed: 60.3cm x 49.4cm
Inscriptions: signed on back: Marsden Hartley
AMICA Contributor: The Cleveland Museum of Art
Owner Location: Cleveland, Ohio, USA
ID Number: 1981.83
Credit Line: Gift of Professor Nelson Goodman
Rights: http://www.clemusart.com/museum/disclaim2.html
Provenance: artist's sale, New York, 1921 ("Pre-War Pageant"). Albert Barnes, Philadelphia. Charles Demuth, Lancaster, Penn., by descent.
Context: Marsden Hartley developed a personal language of symbols that he used in his paintings like a code to be deciphered. In Military, these signs record impressions of parades and celebrations that Hartley witnessed while living in Berlin in the years before World War I. Bright colors and geometric shapes recall the ribbons, medallions and banners of military pageantry. Some of these symbols refer to a Prussian soldier named Karl von Freyburg, who was a close friend of Hartley and was killed in 1914. Forexample, the four-petaled red and black shape near the center of the canvas alludes to von Freyburg's membership in the fourth regimental unit of the German Kaiser's guards. When combined with the red "2" painted below, it also symbolizes the number 24---von Freyburg's age when he died. More generally, the red cross on a white background denotes the flag of the International Red Cross as a reminder of humanitarian concerns amidst the loss and destruction of war.
AMICA ID: CMA_.1981.83
AMICA Library Year: 1999
Media Metadata Rights: Copyright, The Cleveland Museum of Art

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