Kneeling Praying Figure
Brooklyn Museum photograph
Object Label
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.
Caption
Kneeling Praying Figure, ca. 7th–8th century. Stucco, 11 x 5 1/4 x 4 in. (27.9 x 13.3 x 10.2 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the Ernest Erickson Foundation, Inc., 86.227.161. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 86.227.161_acetate_bw.jpg)
Collection
Collection
Title
Kneeling Praying Figure
Date
ca. 7th–8th century
Period
Dvaravati Period
Geography
Place made: Thailand
Medium
Stucco
Classification
Dimensions
11 x 5 1/4 x 4 in. (27.9 x 13.3 x 10.2 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of the Ernest Erickson Foundation, Inc.
Accession Number
86.227.161
Rights
Creative Commons-BY
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