Mount Katahdin, Autumn, No. 2, Marsden Hartley, 1939–40

Mt. Katahdin (maine), autumn #2 artist: marsden hartley (american, lewiston, maine 1877–1943 ellsworth, maine) date: 1939–40 medium: oil on canvas dimensions: 30 1/4 × 40 1/4 in. (76. 8 × 102. 2 cm) classification: paintings credit line: edith and milton lowenthal collection, bequest of edith abrahamson lowenthal, 1991 beginning in the mid-1930s, hartley, a restless artist who had previously been associated with the european avant-garde, proclaimed himself to be the "painter from maine. " between 1939 and 1942, he created more than eighteen bold paintings of maine’s highest peak, mount katahdin, a geological landmark that, as the northernmost terminus of the appalachian trail, resonated with both regional and national symbolism. Hartley’s flat and rough-hewn depiction of form aligns his work with folk art, which audiences and critics embraced throughout the period as inherently american. Object Type: painting. Genre: landscape painting. Date: 1939–40. Place of creation: United States of America. Dimensions: height: 76.8 cm (30.2 in) ; width: 102.2 cm (40.2 in). Medium: oil on canvas. Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art. Mt. Katahdin (Maine), Autumn -2