Hartley’s collection of critical articles, Adventures in the Arts: Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville and Poets, was published in 1921 by Boni and Liveright. The copy in Georgia O’Keeffe’s personal library was gifted to O'Keeffe from Hartley in 1924. This occasion was annotated by Alfred Stieglitz inside the book, and on the box it was locoated in. View images in the Collections Online.
Inscription from Marsden Hartley to [Georgia] O'Keeffe :
“My dear O'Keefe [sic] -. That you have ridden way beyond the references in these pages is your own perfect discovery. I hope I may be able to copy certain of your characteristics in my own work, or at least produce a similar precision of causation. You know you have in me one of your [rarest] admirers. I know of nothing like / you in modern fields of expression. It is no small thing to stand for oneself. You do it. Cordially Marsden Hartley.”
Adventures in the Arts : Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville and Poets by