哈特利出生于刘易斯顿（缅因州）开始了他的艺术培训克利夫兰艺术学院，搬家后克里夫兰（俄亥俄州1892年）22岁的他移居纽约，在那里，他就读于设计的美国国家科学院。他还学习绘画在纽约艺术学生联盟师从威廉·蔡斯。作为一个伟大的崇拜者阿尔伯特·平卡姆莱德，哈特利不断参观了艺术家的工作室格林威治村。

虽然住在纽约，他遇到了阿尔弗雷德·施蒂格利茨，并与该集团291库相关联。哈特利了他的第一个大型展览在画廊291于1909年哈特利是文化先锋艺术家一起等部分格特鲁德·斯泰因，哈特克雷恩，查尔斯德穆思，乔治亚·欧姬芙，费尔南·莱热，庞德和阿诺德Rönnebeck。

哈特利，谁是同性恋，1画人像一个德国军官的 1914年这幅画是一个歌颂卡尔·冯·Freyburg的，一个中尉普鲁士人哈特利已经下降的爱。2但是，冯Freydurg的过程中死亡第一次世界大战。

哈特利整个美国和欧洲广泛游历了二十世纪早期。对于大多数他的生活，他是一个游牧的艺术家。他从缅因州，涂马萨诸塞州，新墨西哥州，加利福尼亚州，纽约州和西欧。从他的家乡度过很多年后，哈特利回到缅因州靠近他生命的尽头，因为他想给在地方层面描绘美国的生活。因此，它成为regionalists的一部分。
 

Hartley was born in Lewis Don (Maine) began his art training school of the Art Institute of Cleveland, after moving Cleveland (Ohio, 1892) at the age of 22, he moved to New York, where he studied at the National Academy of design. He also studied painting at the Art Students League of New York under the tutelage of William Chase. As a great admirer of Albert Pinkamled, Hartley continued to visit the artist's studio Greenwich Village.
Although living in New York, he met Alfred Stiglitz, and associated with the group's 291 libraries. Hartley made his first major exhibition in the gallery in 1909 291 Hartley is a cultural pioneer artists together as part of Gertrude Stein, Hart Klein, Charles Demuth, Georgia Okeeffe, Fernand Leger, Pound and Arnold R nnebeck.
Hartley, who is gay, 1 painted portraits of a German officer in 1914 this painting is a praise of Karl von Freyburg, a lieutenant Prussian man has fallen in love with Hartley. 2 however, von Freydurg died during the first world war.
Hartley traveled extensively throughout the United States and Europe in the early twentieth Century. For most of his life, he was a nomadic artist. He is from Maine, Massachusetts, New Mexico, California, New York and Western europe. After spending years in his hometown, Hartley returned to Maine near the end of his life, because he wanted to portray the life of the United States at the local level. So it becomes part of regionalists.