1934Marsden Hartley returned to paint again in Dogtown.People and Communities, Arts and Culture, Notable People, Art

Hartley tried to paint commercial still lifes, but could not keep himself out of the art enough for the commercial market. He was distracted by worries and wrote in mid-July about Dogtown, “I had lived it over in my imagination so intensely that the thing looked like nothing when I got here.” In the fall, he destroyed hundreds of paintings to cut down on his storage costs.