The Dark Mountain, No. 2

Marsden Hartley

1909 · Oil on commercially prepared paperboard (academy board), mounted to slatted wood board · Modern and Contemporary Art

Hartley’s dark, cloud-filled landscape pays direct homage to painter Albert Pinkham Ryder. After seeing Ryder’s work in New York in 1909, Hartley, a native of Maine, executed a series of bleak, emotionally fraught, even tortured landscapes of his home state. This painting depicts the region of Stoneham Valley, near North Lovell, Maine, although Hartley painted it in New York from memory.

Artist

Marsden Hartley

Date

1909

Medium

Oil on commercially prepared paperboard (academy board), mounted to slatted wood board

Department

Modern and Contemporary Art

Credit line

Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1949