Brooklyn Museum: American Art: Ghosts of the Forest

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Ghosts of the Forest

From 1937 until his death, Marsden Hartley painted annually in his native state of Maine, returning each year to a landscape that he described as "strong, simple, stately" and "brutal." He adopted a boldly expressionistic, deliberately "primitive" style to convey his powerful response to this rugged, forbidding landscape. In Ghosts of the Forest, random piles of driftwood, bleached into pale, spectral shapes by exposure to the elements, dominate the foreground.

Artist: Marsden Hartley, American, 1877-1943
Medium: Oil on academy board
Dates: ca. 1938
Dimensions: 22 1/8 x 28 in. (56.2 x 71.1 cm)
Collections: American Art
Museum Location: This item is on view in American Identities: A New Look, American Landscape, 5th Floor
Accession Number: 40.711
Credit Line: John B. Woodward Memorial Fund
Image: Overall, 40.711_bw.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph

Collections: American Art: Ghosts of the Forest