Marsden Hartley (1877-1943)

The site is possibly Little River, New Hampshire. (Compare with the painting, Little River after Rain--Franconia, New Hampshire, 1930, oil on canvas board, 16 x 12 7/8 inches, at Debra Force Fine Art 2023).

In Cleveland, Ohio in 1914, Marsden Hartley exhibited modernist abstractions that incorporated mysterious figures and symbols in flat, geometric patterns. Hartley was one of several artists admired by Henry Keller and his Cleveland School of Art students, including Charles Burchfield, who were eager to embrace European ideas that challenged American realism.