John Marin, the Water Colorist
1921/1922
Artist, American, 1864 - 1946
Artwork overview
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Medium
palladium print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 23.8 × 18.9 cm (9 3/8 × 7 7/16 in.)
sheet: 25 × 20.3 cm (9 13/16 × 8 in.)
mat: 56.3 × 45.7 cm (22 3/16 × 18 in.) -
Accession
1949.3.512
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Stieglitz Estate Number
84B
Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition
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Key Set Number
708
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Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1949.
Associated Names
Bibliography
2002
Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 1, cat. 708.
Inscriptions
by Georgia O'Keeffe, on mount, bottom left, in graphite: Treated by Steichen 1949; on mount, lower left verso, in graphite: 84 B
by later hand, center verso, in graphite: R [star] / K / 84 B
Wikidata ID
Q64035080
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Remarks
Although Stieglitz must have made the negatives for this photograph and Key Set numbers 706, 707, 709, and 710 during the same sitting, he inscribed some prints 1921, others 1922.
Lifetime Exhibitions
A print from the same negative—perhaps a photograph from the Gallery’s collection—appeared in the following exhibition(s) during Alfred Stieglitz’s lifetime:
possibly 1923, New York (nos. 64–66, as John Marin, 1922)