John Marin American, 1870-1953
42.5 x 55.9 cm
Provenance
The artist; to
Alfred Stieglitz, New York;
John Marin, Jr.; to
Private collection, Philadelphia, 1959; to
[Sale: Sotheby’s, New York, May 22, 2008, lot 39]; to
Estate of the artist, 2008-2022; to
The John Marin Foundation, 2022 until the present
Exhibitions
An American Place, New York, October 27-December 15,1935, no. 1
Museum of Modern Art, New York, John Marin—A Retrospective Exhibition, October, 1936, no. 153
The Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D.C.; The Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, New Hampshire, John Marin in Retrospect: An Exhibition of his Oils and Watercolors, 1962, no. 73, as Ship’s Stern Island
America House, Berlin, Germany, John Marin Exhibition, September-November 1962, no. 53
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Collects Twentieth Century, October 2-November 17, 1963, p. 23, illus.
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, The Private Eye: A Salute to Philadelphia Collections, 1979
Princeton University, New Jersey, Princeton Alumni Collections, Works on Paper, April-June 1981, p. 189
Portland Museum of Art, Maine; Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas; and Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts, John Marin: Modernism at Midcentury, 2011-2012, no. 26
Literature
Art News, November 2, 1935, vol. 34, p. 3Sheldon Reich, John Marin: A Stylistic Analysis and Catalogue Raisonné, Tucson, Arizona, 1970, p. 661, no. 34.11, illus.