Marsden Hartley: American Modern puzzle Black Archives offers a nuanced

Black Archives offers a nuanced compendium of Black memory and imagination

running through June of 2026

as it seems based on a memory from the artist's own youth

by the James Beard Award–winning author of Jubilee

and The Westmoreland’s Chief Curator Jeremiah William McCarthy

Marsden Hartley: American Modern puzzle Black Archives offers a nuancedMarsden Hartley (1877 1943), one of the most important artists from the American early modern period, was part of the heady group surrounding Alfred Stieglitz and his galleries in the early decades of the twentieth century. While New York and Stieglitz acted as a base of support and friendship for Hartley, he constantly shifted from place to place, living abroad and in varying locales across the country. Marsden Hartley: An American Modern traces the