Signed and dated, lower right: M. H. | '41
Black Duck No. 1, 1941
- Marsden Hartley, American, 1877-1943
Oil on masonite
- Unframed: 28 × 22 inches (71.1 × 55.9 cm)
- Framed: 34 3/8 × 28 1/8 × 3 1/4 inches (87.3 × 71.4 × 8.3 cm)
Gift of Robert H. Tannahill
49.512
Department
American Art before 1950
- Oil
- Masonite (tm)
- Painting (visual work)
- United states
- Bird
- Duck
Details
Signed, Marks, Inscriptions
Provenance
until 1944, Paul Rosenberg and Company (New York, New York, USA). 1944-1949, Robert H. Tannahill [1893 - 1969] (Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan, USA); 1949-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
Published References
Annual American Show. Exh. cat., Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Philadelphia, 1943, no. 42. Eighteenth Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Oil Paintings. Exh. cat., Corcoran Gallery of Art. Washington, D.C., 1943, no. 2. American Realists. Exh. cat., Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ontario. Hamilton, 1961, no. 24. Marsden Hartley. Exh. cat., Whitney Museum of American Art. New York, 1970, no. 95. Robert H. Tannahill Memorial Exhibition. Exh. cat., War Memorial. Grosse Pointe Farms, MI, 1978, p. 21.
Rights Status
Marsden Hartley, Black Duck No. 1, 1941, oil on Masonite. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Robert H. Tannahill, 49.512.