Boat Abstraction

1916

Marsden Hartley American, 1877-1943

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Modern, Level 2, North Wing

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Title Boat Abstraction

Artwork Date 1916

Artist Marsden Hartley

Life Dates 1877-1943

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. American

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Oil on beaver board

Dimensions Overall: 20 × 15 7/8 inches (50.8 × 40.3 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department American Art before 1950

Credit Museum Purchase, with funds from the Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund, in honor of Joseph L. Hudson, Jr., partial gift of the Leah and Richard Waitzer Foundation

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 2021.267

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Weyhe Gallery, New York, New York

or personal collection of Erhard Weyhe (by 1953 at the latest) By descent in the family of Erhard Weyhe [Purchased from the above by Craig F. Starr Associates, New York, New York, in 1996] Purchased from the above by Leah and Richard Waitzer (in 1996) By descent to the Leah and Richard Waitzer Foundation (until 2021) [Alexandre Gallery, New York, New York, USA] 2021-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Art & Auction, vol. 19, no. 3 (October 1996): p. 6 [advertisement].

Smith, Andrea Dale. Power and Whimsey: A Private Collection of American Modernism. New York, 2003, pp. 30, 82-83.

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Marsden Hartley, Boat Abstraction, 1916, oil on Beaver board. Detroit Institute of Arts, Museum Purchase, with funds from the Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund, in honor of Joseph L. Hudson, Jr., partial gift of the Leah and Richard Waitzer Foundation, 2021.267.