Mountain Landscape with Two Buildings in Foreground, 1933 (silverpoint on paper)

Signed in lower right of recto: MH Inscribed in lower left of recto: 'Waxensteine / Sep 13 33' Between September 1933 and March 1934, American artist Marsden Hartley (1877-1943) traveled to Germany. First landing in Hamburg, he wended his way south to Garmisch-Partenkirchen, a village in the Bavarian Alps, producing works that captured the spare geometries of the surrounding mountains. In the 21 rarely exhibited silverpoint drawings, Hartley rendered the immense rock Alps with delicate lines, transforming them into wispy, airy abstractions that he called “skeletons."