Movement No. 5, Provincetown Houses
Marsden Hartley · 1916
Why it's great
Tall pale houses crowd together like teeth or gravestones in Marsden Hartley's painting of 1916, from a fishing town in Massachusetts. It is part of a series of strange, simple paintings of houses that he called Movements.
Where to see it
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Hang it on your wall
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Marsden Hartley was an American painter born in Lewiston, Maine, in 1877. He traveled to Paris and Berlin, where he made bold abstract paintings of flags, symbols and military insignia, and later returned to paint his native Maine. He died in Ellsworth, Maine, in 1943.
