Purple Vase

Artist Marsden Hartley (American, 1877 - 1943)

Datec. 1925

MediumOil on canvas

DimensionsOverall: 32 x 25 11/16 in. (81.3 x 65.2 cm)

Credit LineGift of Jean and Alvin L. Snowiss

Object number2015.190

Collections

American

ClassificationsPainting

Object NamePainting

DepartmentPermanent Collection

CultureNorth American

NationalityAmerican

On View

On view

Century

Twentieth

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Inscribedverso bottom left of frame: 6479; verso top center of frame: 6479; verso top stretcher: Marsden #5 50 Purple Vase 12942

Exhibition HistoryInaugural Installation: 20th Century American Galleries (113), Palmer Museum of Art, June 1, 2024–present. An Endless Panorama of Beauty: Selections from the Jean and Alvin Snowiss Collection of American Art, Palmer Museum of Art, November 12, 2002–May 16, 2003. Display in Snowiss gallery, untitled, Palmer Museum of Art, November 10, 1999–April 15, 2000. Seeking the Spiritual: The Paintings of Marsden Hartley, Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, January 25–March 29, 1998; Babcock Galleries, New York, April 20–June 20, 1998.ProvenanceDowntown Gallery, New York, unknown date of acquisition. Adelaide Kuntz (friend of artist), New York, unknown date of acquisition. John P. Kuntz (son of Adelaide), by descent, unknown date of acquisition. Babcock Galleries (under Michael St. Clair), acquired from John P. Kuntz, by 1994. Collection of Alvin and Jean Snowiss, Lock Haven, PA, purchased from Babcock Galleries, June 1998. Palmer Museum of Art, gift of Alvin and Jean Snowiss, 2015.Published ReferencesJoyce Henri Robinson, An Endless Panorama of Beauty: Selections from the Jean and Alvin Snowiss Collection of American Art (University Park: Palmer Museum of Art, 2002), 50 (ill., color), 51, 126. John Goodrich, "Marsden Hartley: Seeking the Spiritual," Review, June 1, 1998. Townsend Ludington, Seeking the Spiritual: The Paintings of Marsden Hartley (exh. cat.) (Chapel Hill, NC: Ackland Art Museum, with New York: Babcock Galleries, 1998), 46 (no. 11), 47 (ill., color). Current Selections: Spring 1994 (New York: Babcock Galleries, 1994), n.p. (ill.).