John Marin
1921/1922
Artist, American, 1864 - 1946
Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet (trimmed to image): 23.2 x 18.5 cm (9 1/8 x 7 5/16 in.)
mount: 56.1 x 46.3 cm (22 1/16 x 18 1/4 in.) -
Accession
1949.3.510
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Stieglitz Estate Number
34C
Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition
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Key Set Number
707
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Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1949.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2016
Georgia O'Keeffe, Tate Modern, London, July 6–October 30, 2016; Bank Austria Kunstforum, Vienna, December 7, 2016–March 26, 2017; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, April 22–July 30, 2017
Bibliography
2002
Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 1, cat. 707.
Inscriptions
by Alfred Stieglitz, on mount, lower left, in graphite: Portrait—John Marin / by Alfred Stieglitz / 489 Park Ave / Keep clean & return to
by Georgia O'Keeffe, on mount, lower left verso, in graphite: 34 C
Wikidata ID
Q64035078
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Remarks
Although Stieglitz must have made the negatives for this photograph and Key Set numbers 706, 708, 709, and 710 during the same sitting, he inscribed some prints 1921, others 1922.
Stieglitz Collections
A corresponding print was given to the following institution(s) by Alfred Stieglitz during his lifetime, or was received or acquired from the estate:
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 49.55.39 [palladium]
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 24.1718 [palladium] (inscribed: Portrait—John Marin / Photograph by / Alfred Stieglitz / 1921 / Negative & Print made / by Alfred Stieglitz / 1921 / Print no. 2 from this negative)
Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1943-18-63 [palladium]
Other Collections
A print corresponding with this photograph can also be found in the following collection(s):
Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville
Milwaukee Art Museum, M2006.8 [platinum or platinum-palladium]
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)
Lifetime Publications
A reproduction of this work appeared in the following publication(s) during Alfred Stieglitz’s lifetime:
Paul Rosenfeld, Port of New York: Essays on Fourteen American Moderns (New York, 1924): frontispiece (ill., John Marin)
Waldo Frank et al., America & Alfred Stieglitz (New York, 1934): pl. 23c (ill., John Marin, 1920)