Marsden Hartley (1877-1943) is best known as an American modernist and
pioneering artist of the early twentieth century. But he was also a prolific
writer who published dozens of essays and reviews and several volumes of poetry
and prose. The autobiographical account of his life in the manuscript collection
of Yale¹s Beinecke Library has often been consulted by scholars and curators
writing about Hartley. It is the most revealing document he left about his
personal life and relationships--both for its disclosures and omissions--but has
never been published before.Transcribed from Hartley¹s own handwritten
manuscripts, this edition is accompanied by photographs (some never before
published), notes, and an introduction discussing