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Yale University -Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Marsden Hartley collection, 1885-1978

12.37 Linear Feet
The collection consists of writings, correspondence, photographs, and other materials documenting the personal and professional affairs of Modernist-era painter Marsden Hartley. Writings contain notes and drafts, autograph and typescript, for numerous writings, chiefly essays. Correspondence is spread out over the many groupings in the collection and features large files of outgoing letters to Norma Berger, Hartley's niece, Carl Sprinchorn, and Adelaide S. Kuntz, as well as incoming letters from artists, writers, cultural figures, and institutions. Correspondents include Hart Crane, Robert McAlmon, Henry Miller, Marianne Moore, Arnold Ronnebeck, Elizabeth Sparhawk-Jones, Gertrude Stein, Alfred Stieglitz, Carl Van Vechten, William Carlos Williams, and Edmund Wilson. There are also third-party letters between Berger and others concerning Hartley's work. Other materials include photographs, three oil paintings by Hartley, notebooks, and objects.
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1950 Acquisition, 1900-1943 3.96 Linear Feet

Writings contain notes and drafts, autograph and typescript, for numerous writings, chiefly essays. The letters from Hartley to his niece, Norma Berger, span over four decades, dating from 1900 to 1943.

    1952-1953 Acquisitions, 1914-1945 0.21 Linear Feet

    This group of material consists of small acquisitions of letters from Hartley to others, one typescript carbon draft of "Digressions of a Cinemafano," and three oil paintings by Hartley.

      1956-1976 Acquisitions, 1906-1976 0.63 Linear Feet

      This grouping brings together several acquisitions consisting chiefly of correspondence. There are small groups of letters from Hartley to others as well as a large file of third-party correspondence between Hartley's niece, Norma Berger, and Carl Sprinchorn. Chiefly in English, with some material in German.