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1916

Movement No. 1 (Provincetown)

Marsden Hartley

American, 1877 - 1943

With its bowlike sail swaying atop a coiled hull, Movement No. 1 is one of a series of abstract compositions inspired by the ships coming in and out of the harbor in Provincetown, Massachusetts, where Marsden Hartley spent the summer of 1916.

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