Mt. Katahdin (Maine), Autumn #2, 1939?40, Oil on canvas, 30 1/4 ? 40 1/4 in. (76. 8 ? 102. 2 cm), Paintings, Marsden Hartley (American, Lewiston, Maine 1877?1943 Ellsworth, Maine), Beginning in the mid-1930s, Hartley, a restless artist who had previously been associated with the European avant-garde, proclaimed himself to be the 'Painter from Maine. ' Between 1939 and 1942, he created more than eighteen bold paintings of Maine?s highest peak, Mount Katahdin, a geological landmark that, as the northernmost terminus of the Appalachian Trail, resonated with both regional and national symbolism