Should you happen to be anywhere near the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth this month, I strongly suggest that you pay a visit to Marsden Hartley and the West: The Search for an American Modernism, a show consisting of forty-odd canvases painted by Hartley in New Mexico between 1918 and 1924. I made enthusiastic mention of Hartley’s little-known New Mexico paintings when I blogged last week about my recent visit to Santa Fe, and one of the images I posted was a reproduction of Valley Road, which belongs to the Cincinnati Art Museum but is currently part of the Amon Carter show.
I wish I could say that I’ll see you there, but I’m otherwise occupied in another part of the country! The show is up through August 24, so if any of you are lucky enough to see it between now and then, be sure to write and tell me what I’m missing.
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