About Painting Number 5 by Marsden Hartley


Painting, Number 5, 1914-15 Oil on canvas, 39 1/2 x 31 3/4 in. (100.3 x 80.6 cm) Gift of an anonymous donor 58.65

Looking for the meaning of the red cross, I found that the coat of arms for Freiburg im Breisgau (a city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, in the Breisgau region on the western edge of the Black Forest. ) is the following:



Could it be ...that Marsden Hartley ..in love with KARL VON FREYBURG
....thought of this coat of arms as a way of saying: this is a portrait is of karl without writing the initials KVF (as he did in other paintings..)....A SUIVRE<<<<<<,,

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