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John Marin

Flint Isle, Maine—No.1, 1947

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Medium

watercolor over graphite on wove paper

Dimensions

sheet: 40.32 × 53.02 cm (15 7/8 × 20 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Gift of the Women's Committee of the Corcoran Gallery of Art)

Catalogue Raisonné

Reich 1970, 47.10

Accession Number

2014.136.200

Artists / Makers

John Marin (artist) American, 1870 - 1953

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Inscription

lower right in watercolor: Marin 47; verso center in graphite: 20 / Fleet Isle / No 1

Provenance

Duncan Phillips, Washington, DC; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1957; acquired 2014 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Phillips, Duncan

Exhibition History

1962: John Marin, Amerika Haus (America House), Berlin, Germany; Amerika Haus (America House), Hamburg, Germany, 1962, no. 60

1962: John Marin in Retrospect, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, New Hampshire, 1962, no. 82

1963: Progress of An American Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1963

1977: Changing Prospects: Views of America on Paper from the Corcoran Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (Tour of Canada), 1977-1979

1979: American Places, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1979-1980

1982: Modernist Watercolors, Prints and Drawings, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1982, no. 24

1983: American Master Drawings from the Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1983

1986: American Masters: Works on Paper from the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, 1986-1988, pp. 82-83, no. 49, repro

2007: Impressionism, Realism, Modernism: Works on Paper from the American Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2007

2011: John Marin: Modernism at Midcentury, Portland Museum of Art, Maine; Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas; Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts, 2011-2012, no. 18, repro

Bibliography

1970: Reich, Sheldon. John Marin: A Stylistic Analysis and Catalogue Raisonné. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1970, p. 752, no. 47.10

1983: Simmons, Linda Crocker and with the assistance of Adrianne J. Humphrey, et al. American Drawings, Watercolors, Pastels, and Collages in the Collection of the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Washington, DC: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1983: p. 153, no. 1028.

1990: Fine, Ruth E. John Marin. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1990, p. 240, pl. 233.

2010: Tedeschi, Martha, et al. John Marin's Watercolors: A Medium for Modernism. Illinois: Art Institute of Chicago, 2010, p. 24-25, fig. 9.

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