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Downtown, New York
19216 3/4 x 8 3/4 in. (17.1 x 22.2 cm)
John Marin
United States (Rutherford, NJ, 1870 - 1953, Cape Split, ME)
Object Type:
Print
Medium and Support:
Etching
Credit Line:
The Charles Rand Penney Collection of the Memorial Art Gallery
Accession Number:
1975.245
Location: Not currently on view
Collection:
The Charles Rand Penney Collection
Edition: 1/30
In John Marin’s Downtown, New York, the viewer experiences the dizzying, disorienting sensation of looking up at the buildings while walking on a city street. Marin’s urban vision was one of energy, force, and fragmentation. He sought to capture the frenetic pace of the modern urban experience and the power of skyscrapers as though they themselves were active players in the city’s vitality, as “warring, pushing, pulling forces.” The slashing diagonal form is the elevated railroad that dominated the New York City landscape starting in the 1870s.
[label text for Modern Icon: The Machine As Subject in American Art exhibition, February 3 – March 6, 2012]
[label text for Modern Icon: The Machine As Subject in American Art exhibition, February 3 – March 6, 2012]
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Exhibition List
This object was included in the following exhibitions:
- Charles Rand Penney Collection Memorial Art Gallery 2/27/1976 - 3/28/1976
- Masterpieces for Rochester: Acquisitions Since 1975 11/24/1978 - 1/7/1979
- From Hassam to Hopper: Prints of New York City Memorial Art Gallery 2/3/1995 - 5/7/1995
- All Around the Town: Artists' New York Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester 8/1/2003 - 11/9/2003
- Modern Icon: The Machine as Subject in American Art Memorial Art Gallery 2/3/2012 - 5/6/2012
Bibliography
This object has the following bibliographic references:
- Article Title: Acquisition: The Charles Rand Penney Foundation Collection. Article Scope: article. Memorial Art Gallery. Gallery Notes. Rochester, New York: Memorial Art Gallery, 1935-1995. Volume Number: 41, Issue Number: 6. Issue Date: February 1976.
- Article Scope: Mention. Elizabeth Brayer. Magnum Opus: The Story of the Memorial Art Gallery, 1913-1988. Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery, 1988.
- Carl Zigrosser. The Complete Etchings of John Marin. Philadelphia, PA: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1969.
- The Charles Rand Penney Collection of the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester. Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery, 1976.
- John Marin: Watercolors, Oil Paintings, Etchings. New York, NY: Museum of Modern Art, 1936.
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