Hartley, Marsden (1877–1943)

US avant-garde painter. His works range from abstract, brightly coloured representations of German soldiers and German military symbols, such as Portrait of a German Officer 1914 (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York), to New England landscapes, such as Log Jam, Penobscot Bay 1940–41 (Detroit Institute of Art).

Born in Lewiston, Maine, USA, he travelled in Europe to study art. He exhibited 1913 with the Blaue Reiter group and returned to the USA to exhibit with the Armory Show 1913. Typical of his later ‘primitive’ style is the painting Fisherman's Last Supper portraying the influence of the early German expressionists.