Background
Ludington, Townsend was born on January 31, 1936 in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Charles Townsend and Constance (Cameron) Ludington.
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"This is a sound, very full, altogether welcome biography of one of the strangest careers in American letters." -- Alfred Kazin, The New York Times Book Review "Ludington's fine, sweeping study . . . shows in full color Dos Passos the paradox, the self-contradiction, the eccentric of such proportions that the mere facts of his life would make arresting reading even if he had no particular genius." -- Washington Post Book World
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Marsden Hartley (1877-1943) was a writer and a spiritual seeker, as well as a distinguished American painter. In his introduction to this generously illustrated volume, Townsend Ludington explores the relationships among Hartley's art, poetry, and essays. He traces the philosophical and literary sources that nourished the artist's evolving spiritual consciousness.Raised in Lewiston, Maine, Hartley felt at odds with life. A voracious reader, he educated himself and became enamored of the transcendentalists Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau, and, particularly, of Walt Whitman. He began spending winters in New York City where he met and was befriended by Alfred Stieglitz. He visited Europe but remained restless for the right physical environment. Eventually returning to New England, Hartley painted in Dogtown, Massachusetts, in the low hills behind the port of Gloucester, and the stark landscape there stimulated some of his most famous paintings.Throughout his career, Hartley painted landscapes and seascapes in which he tried to convey his sense of the wonder of earth, at the same time attempting to articulate the spiritual awareness that came to him in the "magic of dreams." Consciously representative of modernism, Hartley strove to express, as Wallace Stevens said, "not ideas about the thing but the thing itself." He believed that the acts of reading, writing, and painting gave significance to the world accessible to his senses. This book is published with the cooperation of the Ackland Museum in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and the Babcock Galleries in New York City.
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Marsden Hartley (1877-1943) is one of the underrated American painters and poets of the 20th century - his life experiences offering insight into both his work and time. This biography of Hartley looks at his life - as a lonely, introverted homosexual, given to great highs and mordant lows. Neglected during his life as much as critically praised, he was a man of many parts: a fine technician, a restless innovator, an intellectual who could theorize, but whose best art contradicted his theories; and an inveterate traveller. Born in Lewiston, Maine, he had an early love affair with Paris and European culture, before going on to live for periods in New York, Berlin, New Mexico, Nova Scotia, Bermuda, and finally back to New England. As an integral part of an artistic social scene, his story provides a substantial amount of information about art and its relation to American culture during the volatile first 40 years of the 20th century, a time when, in painting as well as in the other arts, Americans left behind their derivative and provincial sensibilities.
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English and American studies educator
Ludington, Townsend was born on January 31, 1936 in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Charles Townsend and Constance (Cameron) Ludington.
Bachelor, Yale University, 1957. Master of Arts, Duke University, 1964. Doctor of Philosophy, Duke U, 1967.
Teacher English, Ransom School, Miami, Florida, 1960-1962;
from assistant professor to Professor of English, U. North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1967-1978;
Cary C. Boshamer Professor of English and American Studies, U. North Carolina, Chapel Hill, since 1982;
chair American studies curriculum, U. North Carolina, Chapel Hill, since 1986. Part-time instructor Duke U., 1963-1966. Resident scholar United States International Communication Agency, 1980-1981.
Visiting professor United States Military Academy, West Point, New York, 1988-1989.
(Marsden Hartley (1877-1943) is one of the underrated Amer...)
( "This is a sound, very full, altogether welcome biograp...)
( "This is a sound, very full, altogether welcome biograp...)
(Marsden Hartley (1877-1943) was a writer and a spiritual ...)
("A penetrating biography. . . . Ludington offers a psycho...)
Captain United States Marine Corps Reserve, 1957-1960. Member American Studies Association, South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association.
Married Jane Ross, February 22, 1958. Children: David, Charles, James, Sarah.