In the context of Lobster Fishermen (Marsden Hartley), discuss the Painting of the Description.
Lobster Fishermen itself depicts a group of lobster fishermen (participants in Maine's iconic lobster industry) posed on a dock. The painting was rendered by Hartley in 1940-41 while the artist was occupying an abandoned church in the fishing village of Corea, Maine. The Metropolitan Museum of Art's profile of the piece notes that Lobster Fishermen is similar to Paul Cézanne's painting series The Card Players.
A study (produced in 1940) for Lobster Fishermen is also in the Met's collection.
Maine Paul Cézanne's Corea, Maine Maine's iconic lobster industry Metropolitan Museum of Art The Card Players Paul Cézanne