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A watercolor seascape featuring strokes of color in shades of blue, green, yellow, red, pink, and gray, over a white background.

This watercolor drawing of a seascape features abstracted strokes of color in shades of blue, green, yellow, red, pink, and gray, layered over a white background.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1950.48
People
John Marin, American (Rutherford, NJ 1870 - 1953 Addison, Cape Split, ME)
Title
Landscape; verso: Seascape
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1914
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/308320

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor over graphite on heavy white wove paper; verso: watercolor over graphite; some color applied and worked with a tool and fingers
Dimensions
36.5 × 41.9 cm (14 3/8 × 16 1/2 in.)
frame: 64.8 × 59.4 × 2.1 cm (25 1/2 × 23 3/8 × 13/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: blue watercolor, l.r.: Marin 14
  • inscription: verso, l.r., blue/black ink, in artist's hand: [signature:] Marin 14
  • inscription: recto, u.c., graphite, in artist's hand: writing and drawing has been erased

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
James Naumberg Rosenberg, New York, New York, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1950.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of James N. Rosenberg
Copyright
© Estate of John Marin / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
Accession Year
1950
Object Number
1950.48
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. 14.29, reproduced in b/w
  • Sue Welsh Reed and Carol Troyen, Awash in Color: Homer, Sargent, and the Great American Watercolor, exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, MA, 1993), reproduced in b/w p. xliv, fig. 7
  • Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., American Watercolors and Pastels 1875-1950 at the Fogg Art Museum, brochure, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2006), checklist
  • Murray Whyte, "A Century of Watercolors at Harvard Display the Form's Unruly Pleasures", Boston Globe (Boston, July 2, 2023), p. N4, repr.
  • Brian T. Allen, "Harvard's Fogg Museum Comes Back to Life with a Glorious Watercolor Show", National Review (August 10, 2023), discussed and repr.
  • Timothy Standring, [Review] "American Watercolors, 1880-1990: Into the Light", The Burlington Magazine (August 2023), 165, pp. 908-911, p. 909
  • Joachim Homann, Margaret Morgan Grasselli, and Miriam Stewart, ed., American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2023), pp. 58, 95, repr. as fig. 4 on p. 58 [detail], pl. 26 on p. 95, cover [detail] (verso)
  • Penley Knipe and Miriam Stewart, Material Matters (A Watercolor Treasury, Support, Reserve, Opacity, Intervention, Resist, Impermanence), American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light, ed. Joachim Homann, Margaret Morgan Grasselli, and Miriam Stewart, Yale University Press (Cambridge, MA, 2023), Pages 40-67, Figure 4, Page 58

Exhibition History

Verification Level

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