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Marsden Hartley, perhaps the most important North American modernist of the first half of the 20th century, wrote these words as part of a long elegiac prose poem entitled Cleophas and His A North Atlantic Tragedy. The story was based on two periods he spent in 1935 and 1936 with the Mason family in the Lunenburg County fishing community of East Point Island. Hartley, then in his late 50s, found there both an innocent, unrestrained love and the sense of home he had been seeking since his unhappy childhood in Maine. The impact of this rich experience lasted until his death in 1943, widening the scope of his mature work which included numerous portrayals of the Masons, of whom he Five magnificent chapters out of an amazing, human book, these beautiful human beings, loving, tender, strong, courageous, dutiful, kind, so like the salt of the sea, the grit of the earth, the sheer face of the cliff - Marsden Hartley and Nova Scotia brings together for the first time the paintings, drawings, poetry, letters and journal entries by Hartley from this period. Hartleys renditions of the simple piety and archaic beauty of these fishermen, their isolated existence and dangerous occupation, bring

Author

Gerald Ferguson; Ronald Paulson; Gail R Scott; Art Gallery of Ontario; Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery

Publisher

Halifax: Published in association with the Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, and the Art Gallery of Ontario, by Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery ; Hanover, N.H.: Distributed by University Press of New England

Published

1987

Language

EN

ISBN

9780919616325

Subjects

Art, Arts