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Print
Downtown, New York
John Marin, 1870 - 1953
Marin, John
United States
1870 - 1953
Male
6 3/4 x 8 3/4 in. (17.1 x 22.2 cm)
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Printer's ink
Printer's ink
1921
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1900-2000, 20th century, etchings, New York city
Print
In John Marin’s <em>Downtown, New York</em>, 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 <em>Modern Icon: The Machine As Subject in American Art</em> exhibition, February 3 – March 6, 2012]
1975.245
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Memorial Art Gallery
9/8/1999
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11/18/2011
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