John Marin

1915, printed 1929/1934

Alfred Stieglitz

Artist, American, 1864 - 1946

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Alfred Stieglitz Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to image): 10.9 × 8.8 cm (4 5/16 × 3 7/16 in.)
    mount: 31.7 × 25 cm (12 1/2 × 9 13/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1949.3.409

  • Stieglitz Estate Number

    122D

    Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition

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  • Key Set Number

    406

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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. 406.

Inscriptions

by later hand, on mount, lower left verso, in graphite: 122 D

Wikidata ID

Q64034922

Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data

Remarks

Marin is applying watercolor to the cover of 291, no. 4 (June 1915), where one of his studies of New York was reproduced.

Other Collections

A print corresponding with this photograph can also be found in the following collection(s):

Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, 414.2008 [platinum]

Lifetime Publications

A reproduction of this work appeared in the following publication(s) during Alfred Stieglitz’s lifetime:

John Marin: Watercolors, Oil Paintings, Etchings [exh. cat. The Museum of Modern Art] (New York, 1936), 68 (ill., John Marin, at work at “291,” 1915)

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