Marsden Hartley

Marsden Hartley (1877-1943) was a homosexual American artist associated with the Gallery 291 Group and a pioneer of modernism. His painting Portrait of a German Officer (1914), was an ode to Karl von Freyburg, a Prussian lieutenant with whom he became enamored before his death in World War I.

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• Scans of Hartley's Adventures in the arts: informal chapters on painters, vaudeville and poets

See also: Marsden Hartley, 1877, 1943, Artist