1929.229: White Mountain Country

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1929.229

People

John Marin, American (Rutherford, NJ 1870 - 1953 Addison, Cape Split, ME)

Title

White Mountain Country

Other Titles

Former Title: The Presidential Range
Former Title: Autumn no. 46

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1927

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/306550

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Watercolor and charcoal on heavy white wove paper

Dimensions

50 x 62.3 cm (19 11/16 x 24 1/2 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: watercolor over graphite, l.r., : Marin 27
• inscription: verso of original mountboard, graphite, English: 46; No. 24
• exhibition label: frame, paper: 37th Annual Exhibition, 1930
• exhibition label: backing board, paper, English: Works of 10 American Watercolor Painters, no. 526
• exhibition label: backing board, paper, English: No. 56.1948
• exhibition label: backing board, paper, English: No. 54.1.3c-x
• gallery label: backing board, paper: In ink: White Mountain Country-Autumn/ Presidential Range- Washington, Adams,/ Jefferson/ by John Marin/ $8000/ exhibition/ Nov-Dec/ 1928
• exhibition label: backing board, paper, English: 1934.165
• exhibition label: backing board, paper: American Watercolor and Winslow Homer, 2/13/45, no. L54-45
• inscription: backing board, graphite, English: FAC 35.458

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Through Alfred Stieglitz, sold; to Fogg Art Museum, 1929.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Friends of the Fogg Art Museum Fund

Copyright

© Estate of John Marin / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

Accession Year

1929

Object Number

1929.229

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Forbes Watson, "The All American Nineteen", The Arts (December 1929), vol. XVI, no. 3, ill. p. 302
• Fogg Art Museum Handbook, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1931), repr. in b/w p. 78
• Emanuel M. Benson, John Marin, The Man and his Work, American Federation of Arts (Washington, DC, 1935), reproduced p. 33
• Fogg Art Museum Handbook, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1936), ill. p. 118
• Alan Burroughs, Limners and Likenesses: Three Centuries of American Painting, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1936), p. 183
• Martha C. Cheney, Modern Art in America, Whittlesey House and McGraw-Hill (New York, NY and London, England, 1939), reproduced, plate 1
• Lloyd Goodrich, American Watercolor and Winslow Homer, exh. cat., Walker Art Center (Minneapolis, MN, 1945), reproduced, p. 72
• Fogg Art Museum and Benjamin Rowland, Jr., Real and Ideal in American Art, exh. cat. (Cambridge, MA, Summer 1948), cat. 28
• Paul J. Sachs, Modern Prints and Drawings, Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. (New York, NY, 1954), pl. 191
• 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
• 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. 140, ill.

Exhibition History

• John Marin, Intimate Gallery, New York, 11/01/1928 - 12/31/1928
• Paintings by 19 Living Americans, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 12/13/1929 - 01/12/1930
• Unidentified Exhibition, Princeton University, 1931, Princeton University, Princeton, 12/28/1931 - 02/01/1932
• Exhibition of Paintings by American Artists, Crandall Free Library, Glens Falls, 03/01/1933 - 03/31/1933
• Watercolors by 12 Americans, Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, 05/22/1933 - 06/26/1933
• [American Paintings], Lyman Allen Museum, New London, 03/02/1934 - 04/23/1934
• Five Americans, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, 05/19/1934 - 06/19/1934
• Watercolors by Contemporary Americans, Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, 05/22/1935 - 06/25/1935
• Unidentified Exhibition, Fine Arts Guild, 1935, Fine Arts Guild, Cambridge, 11/29/1935 - 12/07/1935
• Unidentified Exhibition, Fitchburg Art Association, 1935, Fitchburg Art Association, Fitchburg, 12/08/1935 - 12/31/1935
• 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
• American Watercolor and Winslow Homer, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 02/27/1945 - 03/23/1945; Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, 04/03/1945 - 05/01/1945; Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, 05/15/1945 - 06/12/1945
• Real and Ideal in American Art, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 06/01/1948 - 09/01/1948
• Seven by Six: Loan Exhibition of Contemporary American Watercolors, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, 10/27/1948 - 11/28/1948
• Exhibit of American Watercolors, Albertina Gallery, Vienna, 07/23/1949 - 01/30/1950
• John Marin, Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, Utica, 12/01/1951 - 12/31/1951
• [Marin Retrospective], Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, 01/19/1954 - 02/15/1954
• Boston Arts Festival, Boston Public Gardens, Boston, 06/04/1955 - 06/19/1955
• Americans of Our Times, Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Ogunquit, 07/01/1956 - 09/12/1956
• John Marin, America's Modern Pioneer, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, 02/23/1964 - 03/29/1964
• 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
• The American Landscape, Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, 11/15/1973 - 12/30/1973

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