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Marin Island, Small Point, Maine
193117 x 21 3/4 in. (43.2 x 55.2 cm)
John Marin
United States (Rutherford, NJ, 1870 - 1953, Cape Split, ME)
Object Type:
Watercolor
Medium and Support:
Watercolor with graphite on paper
Credit Line:
Marion Stratton Gould Fund
Accession Number:
1951.10
Location: Not currently on view
Collection:
Encyclopedia Britannica Collection
Like Arthur G. Dove and Georgia O'Keeffe, John Marin aligned himself with the avant-garde circle surrounding Alfred Stieglitz. While Marin's favorite subjects were landscapes and seascapes, particularly Maine marines, he applied to them the modernist sensibilities that he absorbed from European masters like Cézanne, whose first one-man show was at Stieglitz's Gallery 291 in 1911. The island that Marin depicts here is one that he purchased in 1914 immediately after getting married. It is off the coast of Maine, near Portland. The Maine landscape drew Marin back throughout his life.
A chief characteristic of twentieth century painting has been the practice of artists to transform subject with emotion, or as Marin's fellow painter Arthur Dove describes it, to pull the subject matter out and leave the sensation. Here, Marin sketches in the bare bones of his island but then folds it in as part of an all-over expression of action and energy, as if to suggest that the land mass is one with the wind and the waves.
[Gallery label text, 2006]
A chief characteristic of twentieth century painting has been the practice of artists to transform subject with emotion, or as Marin's fellow painter Arthur Dove describes it, to pull the subject matter out and leave the sensation. Here, Marin sketches in the bare bones of his island but then folds it in as part of an all-over expression of action and energy, as if to suggest that the land mass is one with the wind and the waves.
[Gallery label text, 2006]
Marks
Artist's signature, lower right: Marin 31
Provenance
Purchased by the Encyclopedia Britannica Collection of Contemporary American Painting, Chicago, IL; purchased by Senator William Benton, CT, 1948; purchased by the Gallery in 1951
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Exhibition List
This object was included in the following exhibitions:
- John Marin, New Oil Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings An American Place 11/7/1932 - 12/17/1932
- Contemporary American Painting Encyclopaedia Britannica 4/12/1945 - 7/30/1950
- New Accessions of American Painting from the Encyclopaedia Britannica Collection 1/19/1951 - 2/28/1951
- Centennial Exhibition: American Painting Since the Armory Show 10/1/1961 - 10/31/1961
- John Marin, 1870-1953 University of Arizona 2/9/1963 - 3/10/1963
- American Painting: the Tradition of Realism Tioga County Historical Society Museum 10/5/1964 - 10/30/2018
- Selections from the Rochester Memorial Art Gallery Albany Institute of History & Art 11/15/1964 - 12/20/1964
- Inaugural Exhibition Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg 2/7/1965 - 3/7/1965
- American Art in Upstate New York: Drawings, Watercolors and Small Sculpture from 7/12/1974 - 4/27/1975
- Treasures from Rochester Memorial Art Gallery 4/14/1977 - 5/28/1977
- Modern Art in Rochester 7/18/1981 - 8/23/1981
- American Drawings and Watercolors, 1800-1945: Selections from the Permanent Coll Memorial Art Gallery 10/31/1987 - 1/3/1988
Bibliography
This object has the following bibliographic references:
- Article Title: New Accessions of American Paintings. Article Scope: Article. Memorial Art Gallery. Gallery Notes. Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery, 1935-1995. Volume Number: 15, Issue Number: 5. Issue Date: April-May, 1950.
- Article Scope: Reproduction only. Rochester Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester Handbook. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 1961.
- Article Scope: Reproduction only. Denys Sutton. Treasures from Rochester: Exhibited at Wildenstein Galleries, New York, April 14-May 28, 1977: Summary Catalogue. Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery, 1977.
- Art Digest. New York, NY: Art Digest, Inc.
- Docent Newsletter. Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery
- Article Scope: Entry. American Art in Upstate New York: Drawings, Watercolors, and Small Sculpture from Public Collections in Albany, Buffalo, Ithaca, Rochester, Syracuse and Utica. Buffalo, NY: Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, 1974.
- Article Scope: Entry. Inaugural Exhibition. St. Petersburg, FL: Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, 1965.
- Article Scope: Article and reproduction. Contemporary Art: Golden Gate International Exposition, San Francisco 1939. San Francisco, CA: H.S. Crocker Company, Inc., Schwabacher-Frey Co., 1939.
- Article Scope: Mention. Elizabeth Brayer. Magnum Opus: The Story of the Memorial Art Gallery, 1913-1988. Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery, 1988.
- Article Scope: Entry. John Marin, 1870-1953. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona, 1963.
- Article Scope: Entry. Sheldon Reich. John Marin: A Stylistic Analysis and Catalog Raisonné. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 1970.
- MAGazine. Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery
- Article Author: Turner, Elizabeth Hutton. Article Title: John Marin: Marin Island, Small Point, Maine. Article Scope: Chapter and reproduction. Marjorie B. Searl, ed. Seeing America: painting and sculpture from the collection of the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester. Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery, 2006. Page Number: 215-217
- Article Scope: Exhibition Checklist. American Painting: The Tradition of Realism. Owego, NY: Tioga County Historical Society Museum, 1964.
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Seeing America Inservice
Materials from a teacher in-service presentation Spring 2008
Seeing America
Chapter on John Marin's Marin Island, Small Point, Maine, written by Elizabeth Hutton Turner.