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The Summer Camp, Blue Mountain
ca. 1909
Not on view
As a landscape painter, Marsden Hartley was greatly influenced by the transcendentalist writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) and Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862), who perceived nature as a means of connecting sensitive viewers to the spiritual realm.
Hartley’s Summer Camp, Blue Mountain is one of a series of paintings depicting seasonal changes at a site near his residence in North Lovell, Maine. The dominant blue color appears to represent both a cold fall-winter landscape and perhaps also carries spiritual associations. The artist wrote, “Mountains are things, entities of a grandiose character, and the one who understands them best is the one who can suffer them best, and respect their profound loneliness.”
- Artist
- Marsden Hartley (American, 1877-1943)
- Title
- The Summer Camp, Blue Mountain
- Date
- ca. 1909
- Place of Creation
- United States
- Object Type
- Painting
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- Overall: 30 x 34 in. (76.2 x 86.4 cm) Framed: 41 x 45 in. (104.14 x 114.3 cm)
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd
- Accession Number
- 1979.7.47
