Fields and Sky, 1913

Not on View

Medium

watercolor over graphite on wove paper

Dimensions

sheet: 34.93 × 42.55 cm (13 3/4 × 16 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Gift of Francis Biddle)

Accession Number

2015.19.958

Artists / Makers

John Marin (artist) American, 1870 - 1953

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Inscription

lower right in blue watercolor: MARIN; center verso in graphite by unknown hand: 72 [circled] / +; lower left verso in graphite by unknown hand: 10219 / White ma / 16 1/2 x 13 1/2 / 6 6 1/2 / 22 1/2 20; lower center verso in graphite by unknown hand: 1913

Provenance

Francis Biddle, Washington, DC; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1959; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Biddle, Francis
Corcoran Gallery of Art

Exhibition History

1962: John Marin in Retrospect, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, New Hampshire, 1962, no. 59

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. 23

Bibliography

1970: Reich, Sheldon. John Marin: A Stylistic Analysis and Catalogue Raisonné. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1970, p. 380, no. 13.54.

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. 152, no. 1027.