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October 1 – December 17, 2005

 

Published in the early 1990s, Robert Indiana’s The Hartley Elegies are an homage to American modernist and Lewiston native Marsden Hartley, a painter and poet with whom Indiana finds artistic and personal kinship. The imagery in these ten large-scale prints is drawn from Hartley’s 1914-15 “German Officer” paintings, created after the death of the young soldier Karl von Freyburg, a devastating event in Hartley’s life. In his distinctive hard-edged style, Indiana unites military insignia and geometric forms with references to Maine, America, war, and historical events to create a series of symbolic portraits. With the largest holding of Hartley material in the state, the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College Museum of Art is pleased to present The Hartley Elegies in recognition of Indiana’s and Hartley’s ties to Maine and their stature as American artists.

A catalogue with an essay by noted Indiana scholar Susan Elizabeth Ryan will be published this fall as the first in a series of ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College Museum of Art “Collection Project” books.