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Artworks
John Marin American, 1870-1953
River Front, Lower Manhattan, 1936Watercolor, black ink and pencil on paper20 x 26 inches
50.8 x 66 cmSigned and dated at lower right: Marin 36; inscribed and dated on the verso: River Front / Lower Manhattan / 1936Provenance
The artist;
Estate of the artist, 1953; to
[Marlborough Galleries, New York]; to
Mr. & Mrs. Harry Spiro, New York, 1968;
Private collection
Exhibitions
The Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, New Jersey, John Marin, America’s Modern Pioneer. A Retrospective Exhibition of the Watercolors and Oil Paintings from 1903-1953, February 23–March 29, 1964, no. 42, as West Shore Ferry Boat, Hudson River
Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine; the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas; and the Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, John Marin: Modernism at Midcentury, 2011-2012, as River Front, Lower Manhattan
Schoelkopf Gallery, New York, John Marin: Communing with the Colossal, October 24-December 12, 2025Literature
Sheldon Reich, John Marin: A Stylistic Analysis and Catalogue Raisonne, Part II, Tucson, Arizona: The University of Arizona Press, 1970, p. 681, no. 36.28, illus., as River Front, Lower Manhattan
Ruth E. Fine, John Marin, New York: Abbeville Press, 1990, p. 161, pl. 151 illus. in color
John Marin: Modernism at Midcentury, Portland: Portland Museum of Art, 2011, p. 17; 64; 98, no. 27, illus., as River Front, Lower Manhattan
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