Mt. Katahdin (Maine), Autumn #2, Marsden Hartley, 1939–40

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Mt. Katahdin (Maine), Autumn #2, 1939–40, Oil on canvas, 30 1/4 × 40 1/4 in. ( × cm), Paintings, Marsden Hartley (American, Lewiston, Maine 1877–1943 Ellsworth, Maine), 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

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