Ghosts of the Forest
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
Marsden Hartley (American, 1877–1943). Ghosts of the Forest, ca. 1938. Oil on academy board, 22 1/8 x 28in. (56.2 x 71.1cm) frame: 29 1/2 × 35 3/8 × 2 1/2 in. (74.9 × 89.9 × 6.4 cm). Brooklyn Museum, John B. Woodward Memorial Fund, 40.711. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Artist
Title
Ghosts of the Forest
Date
ca. 1938
Medium
Oil on academy board
Classification
Dimensions
22 1/8 x 28in. (56.2 x 71.1cm) frame: 29 1/2 × 35 3/8 × 2 1/2 in. (74.9 × 89.9 × 6.4 cm)
Credit Line
John B. Woodward Memorial Fund
Accession Number
40.711
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