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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1928.5
People
John Marin, American (Rutherford, NJ 1870 - 1953 Addison, Cape Split, ME)
Title
Mt. Chocorua No. 1
Other Titles
Former Title: Mt. Chocorua
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1926
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States, New Hampshire
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/306410

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Transparent and opaque watercolor and charcoal on heavy white wove paper
Dimensions
43.7 × 56 cm (17 3/16 × 22 1/16 in.)
mat: 46.4 × 59.1 cm (18 1/4 × 23 1/4 in.)
frame: 58.4 × 71.3 × 2.4 cm (23 × 28 1/16 × 15/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: dark blue watercolor at l.r.: Marin 26
  • exhibition label: backing board, paper, English: In ink [Stieglitz's hand]: No. 1--Mt. Chocorua-- White Mountains/ series 1926/ by John Marin/ Exhibition 1927.
  • exhibition label: backing board, paper: from the exhibition John Marin 1870-1953
  • exhibition label: backing board, paper, English
  • exhibition label: backing board, paper: Exhibition of Watercolors-- Homer, Sargent and Marin. 4/18- 6/11/47
  • exhibition label: backing board, paper, English: Masters of American Watercolor, 10/15- 11/20/49
  • exhibition label: backing board, paper, English: no. 54.1.3a-x
  • inscription: verso, u.l., graphite, English: No. 7
  • inscription: verso, center, charcoal, English: I
  • inscription: former backboard, graphite: Mt Chocorua White Mts / No 1 Series 1926 / John Marin
  • inscription: former backboard, graphite: Mt Chocorua - White Mts. / No. 1 Series 1926 / John Marin

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, William M. Prichard Memorial Fund
Copyright
© Estate of John Marin / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
Accession Year
1928
Object Number
1928.5
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Sheldon Reich, John Marin: A Stylistic Analysis and Catalogue Raisonné, University of Arizona Press (Tucson, AZ, 1970), vol. II, no. 26.27, reproduced in b/w
  • Donelson F. Hoopes, American Watercolor Painting, Watson-Guptill Publications (New York, NY, 1977), ill. p. 159, p. 148
  • Rackstraw Downes, ed., Fairfield Porter: Art in its Own Terms, Taplinger Publishing Company (New York, NY, 1979), no. 45, reproduced in b/w p. 212
  • Caroline A. Jones, Modern Art at Harvard: The Formation of the Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Collections of the Harvard University Art Museums (New York, NY and Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Art Museums and Abbeville Press, 1985). With an essay by John Coolidge and a preface by John M. Rosenfield. To accompany the inaugural exhibition at the Sackler Museum, Oct 21 1985 - Jan 5 1986, fig. 19, reproduced in color p. 35
  • Modern Art at Harvard, exh. cat., Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Inc. (Tokyo, Japan, 1999), cat. no. 42, repr. (color)
  • Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., "American Watercolors and Pastels, 1875-1950", American Art Review (April 2006), XVIII, no. 2, pp. 88-93, repr. p. 89
  • Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., American Watercolors and Pastels 1875-1950 at the Fogg Art Museum, brochure, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2006), checklist, repr. (n.p.)
  • Joachim Homann, Margaret Morgan Grasselli, and Miriam Stewart, ed., American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2023), pp. 17, 96, repr. as pl. 27 on p. 96

Exhibition History

  • Unidentified Exhibition, Intimate Gallery, 1927, Intimate Gallery, New York, 11/09/1927 - 12/11/1927
  • An Exhibition of American Art, Harvard Cooperative Society, Cambridge, 02/19/1929 - 03/15/1929
  • Unidentified Exhibition, Princeton University, 1931, Princeton University, Princeton, 12/28/1931 - 02/01/1932
  • Watercolors by 12 Americans, Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, 05/22/1933 - 06/26/1933
  • Five Americans, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, 05/19/1934 - 06/19/1934
  • Unidentified Exhibition, Lawrence College, 1935, Lawrence University, Appleton, 03/01/1935 - 04/30/1935
  • Unidentified Exhibition, Phillips Exeter Academy, 1935, Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, 10/14/1935 - 11/16/1935
  • Unidentified Exhibition, Fine Arts Guild, 1935, Fine Arts Guild, Cambridge, 11/29/1935 - 12/07/1935
  • American Watercolors from the Museum's Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 02/01/1936 - 02/29/1936
  • Ten American Watercolor Painters, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 04/15/1939 - 05/07/1939
  • Unidentified Exhibition, Institute of Modern Art, 1945, Institute of Modern Art (now Institute of Contemporary Art), Boston, 05/09/1945 - 07/24/1945
  • American Painting from the Eighteenth Century to the Present Day, Tate Britain, London, 06/01/1946 - 07/01/1946
  • Exhibition of Water Colors: Homer, Sargent, Marin, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, 04/18/1947 - 06/11/1947
  • Masters of American Watercolor, Wellesley College Museum of Art, Wellesley, 10/18/1949 - 11/20/1949
  • [John Marin], Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Boston, 05/01/1951 - 05/31/1951
  • [Expressionism Exhibition], Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, 11/01/1952 - 01/04/1953
  • [Marin Retrospective], Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, 01/19/1954 - 02/15/1954
  • 150th Anniversary of the Discovery of the Old Man of the Mountains, Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, 07/15/1955 - 09/15/1955
  • John Marin 1870 - 1953, University of Arizona, Tucson, 02/09/1963 - 03/10/1963
  • Unidentified Exhibition, Lincoln Laboratory, 1965, Lincoln Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lexington, 05/20/1965 - 07/20/1965
  • Watercolors from the Fogg: An Historical Collection, St. Paul's School, Concord, 10/12/1971 - 11/20/1971
  • The American Landscape, Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, 11/15/1973 - 12/30/1973
  • The Harvard Society for Contemporary Art, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 08/29/1992 - 03/07/1993
  • Modern Art at Harvard, Bunkamura Museum of Art, Tokyo, 07/31/1999 - 09/26/1999; Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Kagawa, 10/09/1999 - 11/14/1999; Matsuzakaya Art Museum, Nagoya, 12/02/1999 - 12/27/1999; Oita City Museum, Oita, 01/06/2000 - 02/06/2000; Museum of Modern Art, Ibaraki, Ibaraki, 02/11/2000 - 03/26/2000
  • American Watercolors and Pastels, 1875-1950, at the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/08/2006 - 06/25/2006
  • American Art and Modernity, 1865–1965, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/04/2012 - 01/19/2013
  • American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 05/20/2023 - 08/13/2023

Verification Level

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