The Male Paintings of Marsden Hartley

Christ held by half-naked men

Finnish Sauna

Cannuck Yankee Lumberjack

In 1969, writing in the New York Times, Hilton Kramer praised Hartley's portraits as "the boldest paintings of male figures in the history of American art."

Christ Held by Half-Naked Men (1940-41), Marsden Hartley