National Gallery of Art Fourth Street & Constitution Avenue, N.W Washington District of Columbia 20565
Date:
1914-1915
Notes:
"A catalogue of the collection of American paintings in the Corcoran Gallery of Art; volume 2," Washington, D.C.: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1973, pg. 99.
Cash, Sarah, with Terri Sultan, "American Treasures of the Corcoran Gallery of Art," New York: Abbeville Press, 2000, pg. 172.
Haskell, Barbara, " Marsden Hartley," New York: Whitney Museum of Art, 1980, pg. 221.
Scott, Gail R., "Marsden Hartley," New York: Abbeville Press, 1988, no. 39.
Cash, Sarah, ed., "Corcoran Gallery of Art, American Paintings to 1945," Washington, DC: Corcoran Gallery of Art in association with Hudson Hills Press, 2011, pg. 210.
National Gallery of Art, collection printout, "Acquisitions from the Collection of the Corcoran Gallery of Art," 2015.
Image on file.
Cash, Sarah, with Terri Sultan, "American Treasures of the Corcoran Gallery of Art," New York: Abbeville Press, 2000, pg. 172.
Scott, Gail R., "Marsden Hartley," New York: Abbeville Press, 1988, pg. 55.
Cash, Sarah, ed., "Corcoran Gallery of Art, American Paintings to 1945," Washington, DC: Corcoran Gallery of Art in association with Hudson Hills Press, 2011, pg. 211.
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Summary:
Abstract painting from the artist's "German officer portrait" series features the colors of the German flag and emblems of German military uniforms, including checkered patterns in blue and red, a black cross in a red circle, the number 4, blue and white stripes, and black and yellow stripes.
