Study for a Seaside Grouping

1893

John Marin

Associated Names
John Marin

Artist, American, 1870 - 1953

This is a drawing of a seaside building. It shows an architectural design of a structure located on a rocky shoreline, featuring steeply pitched roofs and tall, narrow tower-like elements. The building has various peaked sections and is characterized by a blend of stone and stair-like elements leading down toward the water. The composition conveys movement and wind through sweeping lines in the sky. The surroundings include vegetation and pathways leading up to the building. Below the illustration is the text "Study for a Seaside Grouping."
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and black ink over graphite on tracing paper; mounted to paper board

  • Credit Line

    Gift of John Marin, Jr.

  • Dimensions

    sight size (cover mat mounted down, overlaps sheet): 27 x 40.6 cm (10 5/8 x 16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1986.54.34

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Reich 1970, undescribed

Artwork history & notes

Bibliography

1990

  • Fine, Ruth E. John Marin. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1990, p. 40, pl. 31.

2018

  • Wagner, Ann Prentice and Josephine White Rodgers. Becoming John Marin: Modernist at Work, Exh. cat. Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, 2018: 12, fig. 2.2.

Inscriptions

lower right in pen and black ink: J.C.Marin / Des. et. Del. / 1893; across bottom in pen and black ink: Study for a Seaside Grouping

Wikidata ID

Q64582891

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