John Marin American, 1870-1953
Yellow Sun, New York City, c. 1934
Oil on canvasboard
17¾ x 13¾ inches
45.1 x 34.9 cm
45.1 x 34.9 cm
Signed at lower right: Marin
Provenance
The artist; toEstate of the artist, 1953;
[Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, New York];
[Kennedy Galleries, New York]; to
Private collection, c. 1975; to
[Sale: Sotheby’s, New York, November 18, 2015, lot 69];
[The Owings Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico]; to
The present owner
Exhibitions
Cape Split Place, Addison, Maine, John Marin: The Etchings and Related Oils, Drawings and Watercolors, August–October 1980, no. 63Kennedy Galleries, New York, John Marin's New York, October 13-November 6, 1981, no. 44
The Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, Texas, Masterpieces of American Modernism from the Vilcek Collection of American Art, September 13, 2018–January 6, 2019
Schoelkopf Gallery, New York, John Marin: Communing with the Colossal, October 24-December 12, 2025
Literature
Sheldon Reich, John Marin: Catalogue Raisonné, Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1970, vol. II, p. 666, no. 34.35, illus.
John I. H. Baur, “John Marin’s ‘warring, pushing, pulling’ New York,” ARTnews, November 1981, vol. 80, pp. 106-110
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