The Bates College Museum of Art in Maine has acquired a prized painting by American modernist Marsden Hartley, with funds from a $100,000 grant to the museum from a foundation in New York City.

The Mr. and Mrs. Raymond J. Horowitz Foundation for the Arts helped fund the purchase of “Intellectual Niece,” a late Hartley work depicting his beloved niece Norma Berger.

Remaining funds from the grant will go to scholarly documentation of hundreds of items in the museum’s Marsden Hartley Memorial Collection as part of the development of a fully accessible online catalog of the collection — a collection made possible by Norma Berger.

The museum’s planned online art resource will feature the Hartley collection, comprising his artwork and works by other notable artists, his personal library, and a treasure trove of his personal effects. The effort comes on the heels of the popular touring exhibition Marsden Hartley’s Maine, a landmark show organized and shown by the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Colby College Museum of Art.