A long unseen Marsden Hartley painting has been discovered in a bank vault in Maine. “Hartley is increasingly recognized as one of the most significant American modernists of the 20th century,” says Bates College Museum of Art director Dan Mills. “He is also one of the few of his generation and stature who does not have this kind of comprehensive scholarship available. It’s a huge project, and we are so fortunate to have one of the preeminent Hartley scholars living in Maine and already deeply committed to Hartley and Hartley scholarship.”
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