LEWISTON — A program on Lewiston-born artist Marsden Hartley will be presented at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 7, in Callahan Hall of the Lewiston Public Library.

Donna Cassidy, professor of art history and American & New England Studies at the University of Southern Maine, will present “Marsden Hartley’s Maine at Home and Abroad: The Local as Cosmopolitan.”

 The event is free and open to the public.

The talk precedes a major Hartley exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City on March 15. Cassidy is a co-curator for that show titled Marsden Hartley’s Maine. Following its close at the Met on June 18, the exhibition will be shown at the Colby College Museum of Art from July 8 through Nov. 12.

Included in the 2017 exhibition is Hartley’s oil painting, “Shady Brook,” which was completed in 1907 and donated by the artist that same year to the Lewiston Public Library. It will be included in the New York exhibition.

Hartley began and ended his artistic career in Maine. In the first decade of the 20th century he created dazzling landscapes of the western mountains that brought him into the avant-garde circle of Alfred Stieglitz and concluded his career by producing roughly rendered paintings of Maine’s landscape, coast, and fisher folk that garnered him fame as the “painter from Maine.” In the interim, he made only brief visits to the state, spending time instead in Europe and other parts of North America.

Cassidy’s talk will particularly focus on the way that Hartley saw profound connections between Provence, Germany, and Nova Scotia and Maine.

Notecards with the “Shady Brook” image are available at the library’s first floor lending services desk for a donation of $2, or $7 for a packet of six cards.

For further information, contact the library’s adult/teen services desk at 513-3135 or lpl[email protected]