Columbus Museum of Art 480 East Broad Street Columbus Ohio 43215 Accession Number: 31.173
Date:
1914
Notes:
Kornhauser, Elizabeth Mankin, "Marsden Hartley," New Haven, CT: Yale University Press in association with Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, 2002, pl. 14.
Columbus Museum of Art, 1977.
"The American Collections, Columbus Museum of Art," New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., in association with Columbus Museum of Art, 1988, pg. 80.
Haskell, Barbara, " Marsden Hartley," New York: Whitney Museum of Art, 1980, cat. 23.
Robertson, Bruce, "Marsden Hartley," New York: Harry N. Abrams (in association with the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution), 1995, pg. 63.
Scott, Gail R., "Marsden Hartley," New York: Abbeville Press, 1988, no. 37.
Summary:
Abstract World War I emblematic image depicting an Imperial Prussian Horse Guardsman, probably symbolizing the artist's good friend Karl Von Freyburg who was killed in Oct. 1914, surrounded by clouds dotted with Greek crosses. Behind the horseman is a large golden medallion featuring a kneeling white horse branded with the number eight. Below the horseman, the canvas is divided into five squares depicting pleasant landscapes showing scenes of a house with mountains in the distance, a farm with cattle grazing, a church in the mountains, a sun rising on the horizon, and a moon rising over a blue and white checkerboard pattern.
