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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1928.4
People
John Marin, American (Rutherford, NJ 1870 - 1953 Addison, Cape Split, ME)
Title
Mt. Chocorua No. 5; verso: two diagrams of moulding profiles
Other Titles
Alternate 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/306443

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Transparent and opaque watercolor and charcoal on heavy white wove paper; verso: charcoal and graphite
Dimensions
43.7 × 55.5 cm (17 3/16 × 21 7/8 in.)
mat: 46.4 × 59.1 cm (18 1/4 × 23 1/4 in.)
frame: 58.4 × 71.3 × 2.5 cm (23 × 28 1/16 × 1 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: gray watercolor over graphite, l.l.: Marin 26
  • exhibition label: back of frame, paper, English: no. 36.1243; also a partial label from the same exhibition and venue.
  • exhibition label: backing board, paper, English: Project no. 63.003, John Marin in Retrospect, cat. no. 42
  • exhibition label: backing board, paper, English: no. 36.1243
  • gallery label: backing board, paper, English: In ink [Stieglitz's hand]: No. 5- Mt. Chocorua- White Mtns- Series 1926/ by John Marin/Exhibition/ 1927.
  • exhibition label: backing board, paper, English: John Marin Retrospective, no. 58
  • exhibition label: backing board, paper, English: Masters of American Watercolor
  • exhibition label: backing board, paper, English: "The Seven Brothers", no. M3422-6 [is this shipping label?]
  • inscription: verso, u.l., charcoal, English: No. 3
  • inscription: verso, center, black chalk, English: G

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Louise E. Bettens Fund
Copyright
© Estate of John Marin / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
Accession Year
1928
Object Number
1928.4
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Emanuel M. Benson, John Marin, The Man and his Work, American Federation of Arts (Washington, DC, 1935), pl. 33
  • Sheldon Reich, John Marin: A Stylistic Analysis and Catalogue Raisonné, University of Arizona Press (Tucson, AZ, 1970), vol. II, catalogue no. 26.29
  • Kenyon Castle Bolton, III, Peter G. Huenink, Earl A. Powell III, Harry Z. Rand, and Nanette C. Sexton, American Art at Harvard, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1972), cat. 139, ill.
  • Marjorie B. Cohn, Wash and Gouache: A Study of the Development of the Materials of Watercolor, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, 1977), pp. 10, 17, 102-103, cat. 38
  • Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., American Watercolors and Pastels 1875-1950 at the Fogg Art Museum, brochure, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2006), checklist
  • Joachim Homann, Margaret Morgan Grasselli, and Miriam Stewart, ed., American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2023), pp. 10, 16-1, repr. on p. 10 [detail], as fig. 4 on p. 16

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
  • American Watercolors from the Museum's Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 02/01/1936 - 02/29/1936
  • John Marin Retrospective, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 10/12/1936 - 11/18/1936
  • Three Centuries of American Art, Galerie National du Jeu de Paume, Paris, 05/15/1938 - 06/15/1938
  • Unidentified Exhibition, Winchester Art Association, 1944, Winchester Art Association, Winchester, 06/01/1944 - 06/28/1944
  • Unidentified Exhibition, Colby College Museum of Art, 1945, Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, 05/10/1945 - 06/06/1945
  • Watercolor USA: A Survey of Watercolor from 1870 to 1946, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 04/24/1946 - 05/08/1946; Pan-American Union, Washington, 05/17/1946 - 08/01/1946; [Unknown venue, Buenos Aires], Buenos Aires, 08/23/1946 - 09/13/1946; [Unknown venue, Rio de Janeiro], Rio de Janeiro, 10/01/1946 - 10/31/1946; [Unknown venue, Sao Paolo], Sao Paolo, 11/01/1946 - 11/30/1946; [Unknown venue, Montevideo], Montevideo, 01/01/1947 - 02/28/1947; [Unknown venue, Bogota], Bogota, 03/01/1947 - 03/31/1947; [Unknown venue, Lima], Lima, 04/01/1947 - 04/30/1947; [Unknown venue, Santiago], 05/01/1947 - 05/30/1947
  • 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
  • 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 in Retrospect, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 03/02/1962 - 04/15/1962; Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, 05/09/1962 - 06/24/1962
  • 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
  • American Art at Harvard, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/19/1972 - 06/18/1972
  • Wash and Gouache: A Study of the Development of the Materials of Watercolor, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 05/12/1977 - 06/22/1977
  • The Harvard Society for Contemporary Art, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 08/29/1992 - 03/07/1993
  • 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 Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 05/20/2023 - 08/13/2023

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