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  • Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: John Marin, Islands Looking Out from Deer Isle, Maine No. 2, 1919

    John Marin American, 1870-1953

    Islands Looking Out from Deer Isle, Maine No. 2, 1919
    Watercolor on paper on silver-leaf artist's mount in the artist's frame
    16 x 19½ inches
    40.6 x 49.5 cm
    Signed and dated at lower right: Marin 19
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    Islands Looking out from Deer Isle, Maine #2 represents one of Marin’s unique framing practices. According to Ruth Fine, some works, 'painted as early as the teens, are mounted on...
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    Islands Looking out from Deer Isle, Maine #2 represents one of Marin’s unique framing practices. According to Ruth Fine, some works, "painted as early as the teens, are mounted on wide gold- or silver-leafed mounts of great elegance, which are generally finished with matching half-inch frame moldings in gold or silver, as appropriate" (Ruth E. Fine, John Marin, Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1990, 201-203.)


    Marin described his silver- and gold-leafed mounting practice to Stieglitz in a letter from July 27, 1919: "my gold mat, that’s a wonder. Why? Because it fights and that within it has got to put up such a fight that neither one gets the best of it. Someday I’ll get me a wall with glaring, hideous wallpaper and try and have my things so that they too will fight the things and not be worsted." (Letter from Marin to Alfred Stieglitz, Stonington, Maine, July 27, 1919. Quoted in Dorothy Norman, The Selected Writings of John Marin, New York: Pellegrini & Cudahy, 1949, 44.)


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    Provenance

    The artist; to
    Estate of the artist, 1953; to 

    The John Marin Foundation, 2022 until the present

    Exhibitions

    Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Maine, John Marin: On the Verge of Wilderness, 2017

    Literature

    Sheldon Reich, John Marin: A Stylistic Analysis and Catalogue Raisonné, Vol. II, Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1970, p. 470, no. 19.20, illus.
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