Hotspur🏳️🌈🇺🇦"The Ice Hole, Maine," Marsden Hartley, 1908.
Artist, poet, and essayist Hartley (1877-1943) was a seminal figure in the development of modern art in America. A devotee of Transcendentalist philosophy, he viewed painting as a spiritual quest.
A native of Maine, he spent a lot of time in the village of Lovell, where he painted this and many other landscapes, which he viewed as his first mature works. He traveled to Europe in 1912 and began to experiment with Abstract and Cubist styles. He traveled about the world, but late in life became focused on depicting life in Maine...and then, in his 60s, painting a series of homoerotic portraits that are now seen as him affirming and admitting his sexuality.
But yeah, the title is just a tiny bit unfortunate, what with today's lingo. "You ICE HOLE!" we might shout at another driver...
From the New Orleans Museum of Art.