Images(2)

Landscape

Artist John Marin (American, 1870 - 1953)

Date1951

MediumWatercolor and ink on paper

DimensionsOverall: 21 x 15-1/2 inches (53.3 x 39.4 cm), sight: 16-3/8 x 12 inches (41.3 x 30 inches), conservation mat: frame: 25-1/8 x 20-7/8 x 1/2 inches (64 x 52.9 x 1.4 cm)

Credit LineBequest of James R. and Barbara R. Palmer

Object number2019.86

Collections

American

ClassificationsPainting

Object NameWatercolor

DepartmentPermanent Collection

CultureNorth American

NationalityAmerican

On View

Not on view

Century

Twentieth

More Information

Signedbottom right: Marin 51

Inscribedverso top left: shown in Marin film produced by / The University of Arizona, 1969; verso top center: NBM 4/27/84; verso top right: SR# 1880 Untitled (Landscape) / dimensions of painting: 16 3/4 x 12 3/8 / sheet size: 21 x 15 ½ / NON 10,617; verso center: Raq / untitled-1951; verso bottom right quadrant: SR51.15 / #29174 / MARIN FILM; verso of frame right: 20378 16 KT.R. BLK CLAY; verso of backing board top right: 29174

Exhibition HistoryAn American Place: Selections from the James and Barbara Palmer Collection, Palmer Museum of Art, January 29–May 1, 2022 February Pop-Up: Postwar Works on Paper from the Palmer Bequest, Palmer Museum of Art, February 28, 2020 John Marin: Modernism at Midcentury, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME, June 23–October 9, 2011; Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, November 4, 2011–January 8, 2012; Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA, January 27–April 1, 2012 Selections and Transformations: The Art of John Marin, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, January 28–April 15, 1990ProvenanceEstate of the artist Collection of James and Barbara Palmer, acquired in 1988 from Kennedy Galleries, New York Palmer Museum of Art, bequest of James R. and Barbara R. Palmer, 2019Published ReferencesJoyce Henri Robinson, ed., A Gift From the Heart: American Art from the Collection of James and Barbara Palmer (University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2013), 131, 132 (fig. 9), 133, 195 (ill., color). Debra Bricker Balken, John Marin: Modernism at Midcentury (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011), 93 (ill., color, pl. 54), 100. Ruth E. Fine, John Marin (Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1990), 269 (ill., color, pl. 268), 271. Sheldon Reich, John Marin: A Stylistic Analysis and Catalogue Raisonné, 2 vols. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1970), 2:792 (ill., no. 51.15).