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Marsden Hartley


 

Marsden Hartley (1877-1943) was a homosexual American artist associated with the Gallery 291 Group and a pioneer of modernism. His painting Portrait of a German Officerhttp://www.metmuseum.org/works_of_art/viewone.asp?dep=21&viewmode=0&item=49%2E70%2E42 (1914), was an ode to Karl von Freyburg, a Prussian lieutenant with whom he became enamored before his death in World War I.

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1877 - 1943

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