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Blessing the Melon: The Indians Bring the Harvest to Christian Mary for Her Blessing, (painting)

Catalog Data

Painter:
Hartley, Marsden 1877-1943  Search this
Medium:
Oil on board
Culture:
Indian  Search this
Type:
Paintings
Owner/Location:
Philadelphia Museum of Art 26th Street & Benjamin Franklin Parkway Philadelphia Pennsylvania 19130 Accession Number: 49.18.13
Date:
1918
Notes:
Kornhauser, Elizabeth Mankin, "Marsden Hartley," New Haven, CT: Yale University Press in association with Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, 2002, pl. 34.
Udall, Sharyn Rohlfsen, "Modernist painting in New Mexico, 1913-1935," Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1984, fig. 11.
Haskell, Barbara, " Marsden Hartley," New York: Whitney Museum of Art, 1980, cat. 47.
Hobbs, Robert, "Milton Avery," New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1990, pg. 72.
"Check List of Paintings in the Philadelphia Museum of Art," Philadelphia, PA: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1965.
Topic:
Ceremony--Religion  Search this
Object--Fruit--Melon  Search this
Religion--New Testament--Mary  Search this
Ethnic  Search this
Control number:
IAP 8B560009
Data Source:
Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art Museums
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_ari_412930