A Spiritual Quest in Paint: The Life and Art of Marsden Hartley Marsden Hartley, born Edmund Hartley in Lewiston, Maine, on January 4, 1877, was a restless spirit drawn to the profound possibilities within art. His early life was marked by a sense of displacement and loss; orphaned young and sent to work in a shoe factory, he carried with him an enduring awareness of loneliness that would deeply inform his artistic vision. This period instilled in him a quiet intensity, a searching quality that permeated his canvases throughout his career. The move to Cleveland with his family offered a turn…