My dear Stieglitz

"A collection of previously unpublished correspondence between American artist Marsden Hartley and avant-garde impresario, editor, and photographer Alfred Stieglitz, My Dear Stieglitz chronicles Hartley's three-year-plus European pilgrimage before - and during the inception of - World War I. Beginning with Hartley's 1912 arrival in Paris, his letters to Stieglitz provide sweeping accounts of Gertrude Stein's salons, gossip from bohemian cafes of Montparnasse, and commentary on paintings by Picasso, Cezanne, and Matisse. He records encounters with Robert Delaunay, Paul Fort, Claude Debussy, Elie Nadelman, Eduard Steichen, and Charles Demuth, as well as other commanding figures as he navigates the thriving capital of modern art and world culture during the rise of Cubism and Futurism. Searching for artistic growth and inspiration, Hartley reports, with opinionated insight, on the European world of art in the age of dealers and gallery owners such as Ambroise Vollard, the Bernheim-Jeunes, and the Durand-Ruels.". "From Germany in early 1913, Hartley writes vibrant letters about the Expressionist artists in Munich, Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc, and their group Der Blaue Reiter. Hart