When he was 62 years old, American painter Marsden Hartley made a pilgrimage to Mount Katahdin, the highest peak in his home state of Maine. This painting commemorates that accomplishment and captures a view of the mountain beloved by decades of American writers and painters, including Frederic E. Church, who painted the mountain for forty years. Mount Katahdin, Autumn No. 1 embraces the modernist potential of the famous mountain while capturing a vivid sense of Hartley’s intimate relationship to his native countryside.