The Dark Mountain, No. 1, 1909, Oil on commercially prepared paperboard (academy board), 14 x 12 1/8 in. ( x cm), Paint

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The Dark Mountain, No. 1, 1909, Oil on commercially prepared paperboard (academy board), 14 x 12 1/8 in. ( x cm), Paintings, Marsden Hartley (American, Lewiston, Maine 1877–1943 Ellsworth, Maine), Soon after his May 1909 exhibition at '291,' Hartley saw Albert Pinkham Ryder's painting Moonlight Marine (1870-90), a classic example of American romanticism. It sparked a new series of emotionally and tonally dark landscapes of Maine, including the two on view here

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