Provenance

Mr. and Mrs. John C. Marin, Jr.

he: died 1988

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John Marin, Woolworth Building under Construction [recto], c. 1911, watercolor on wove paper, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John Marin, Jr., 1987.19.2.a

Woolworth Building under Construction [recto]

John Marin · c. 1911 · watercolor on wove paper ·  Accession ID  1987.19.2.a

John Marin, View of New York [verso], c. 1913, watercolor on wove paper, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John Marin, Jr., 1987.19.2.b

View of New York [verso]

John Marin · c. 1913 · watercolor on wove paper ·  Accession ID  1987.19.2.b

Bold strokes and textured squiggles of light teal, muted peacock blue, chestnut-brown, and gray create the impression of a churning sea beneath an oyster-white sky in this abstracted painting. Near the center of the composition, lime-green triangles against a larger patch of slate gray march toward the high horizon line. More green triangles line the lower edge of the canvas. The upper left is filled by a tall, sloping mound of gray and smoky purple layered with strokes of black. The artist signed and dated the painting in the lower right, “Marin 38.”
John Marin, Grey Sea, 1938, oil on canvas, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John Marin, Jr., 1987.19.1

Grey Sea

John Marin · 1938 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1987.19.1