{"product_id":"mount-katahdin-maine","title":"Mount Katahdin, Maine","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eArtist: \u003c\/strong\u003eMarsden Hartley (American, 1877–1943)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOriginal Dimensions: \u003c\/strong\u003e29 15\/16\" x 40 1\/8\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLocation:\u003c\/strong\u003e National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout Artwork: \u003c\/strong\u003e (1942) \"During the late 1930s the aging Marsden Hartley experienced a number of personal and professional reversals that prompted him to return to his native state to reinvent himself as a Maine artist. In September 1937, he settled in Bangor, where he realized a long-standing objective to paint Mount Katahdin, Maine’s highest mountain. Katahdin’s unspoiled beauty had attracted such notables as Henry David Thoreau and Frederic Edwin Church, and it was heavily promoted as a tourist destination in Hartley’s lifetime. The artist spent eight days in October 1939 making sketches of Katahdin that formed the basis of the approximately 18 oil paintings of it that he produced over the next three years. Executed in 1942, \u003ci\u003eMount Katahdin, Maine\u003c\/i\u003e is one of the last and most successful paintings in the series.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMount Katahdin, Maine\u003c\/i\u003e was not intended to be a literal view of the mountain, but rather an evocation of its grandeur that captures a seasonal mood. Hartley exercised artistic license by centering Baxter Peak, the mountain’s highest point, and bringing it closer to the foreground than it really appeared from his vantage point. The reductive composition consists of four horizontal zones: the lake, the foliage, the mountain, and the sky. Hartley’s cloud forms are particularly distinctive. They appear to have the same weight and be made of the same substance as the mountain, and yet, barely escaping Katahdin’s gravitational force, they rise and float free against the sky. Such unusual insights reveal Hartley to be an American visionary painter in the tradition of Albert Pinkham Ryder, an artist he greatly admired.\" - (\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.nga.gov\/artworks\/52376-mount-katahdin-maine\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"National Gallery of Art Washington DC - Mount Katahdin Maine\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eNational Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.\u003c\/a\u003e)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Marsden Hartley","offers":[{"title":"No Size Selected (Select a Size)","offer_id":49839970418931,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Replica Size (29 15\/16\" x 40 1\/8\")","offer_id":49839970451699,"sku":null,"price":1922.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Signature Size (15 1\/2\" x 20 3\/4\")","offer_id":49839970484467,"sku":null,"price":695.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Classic Size (18 7\/8\" x 25 3\/8\")","offer_id":49839970517235,"sku":null,"price":895.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Gallery Size (23 1\/8\" x 31 1\/8\")","offer_id":49839970550003,"sku":null,"price":1295.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Statement Size (29 7\/8\" x 40 1\/8\")","offer_id":49839970582771,"sku":null,"price":1995.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Grand Size (35 7\/8\" x 48 1\/8\")","offer_id":49839970615539,"sku":null,"price":2795.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Estate Size (42 3\/8\" x 56 3\/4\")","offer_id":49839970648307,"sku":null,"price":3695.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Museum Size (50 3\/4\" x 68\")","offer_id":49839970681075,"sku":null,"price":4995.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0827\/5738\/6483\/files\/MountKatahdin_Maine.jpg?v=1783493299","url":"https:\/\/commissionedpaintings.com\/products\/mount-katahdin-maine","provider":"Commissioned Paintings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}