Monday, April 13, 2026

Studio Day 64

Gertrude Abercrombie, brooch 
Milwaukee Art Museum
photo: Larry Wolf (2026)

Marsden Hartley, Garmisch-Partenkirchen (1933)
Milwaukee Art Museum

photo: Larry Wolf (2026)




“I think painting for him was a struggle. I think he was always struggling with those basic problems of being alive,” American painter Sam McKinniss (b. 1985) says of Hartley, whom he believes was simultaneously convinced of his genius: “And that’s enough to keep a person going.”

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