Inscription: Signed and dated (lower right, in watercolor over graphite): Marin 23
the artist (from 1923; to Stieglitz); Alfred Stieglitz, New York (by 1936–d. 1946; his estate, 1946–49; gift to MMA)
New York. Montross Gallery. "Recent Water Colors by John Marin: Consisting of Scenes Painted in the Region About Stonington, Deer Isle, Maine, in 1923, and Several Painted in 1922–23 in New York and the Palisades on the Hudson," February 16–March 8, 1924, brochure no. 39 (as "Two Master at Rest").
Museum of Modern Art, New York. "John Marin: Watercolors, Oil Paintings, Etchings," October 19–November 22, 1936, no. 53.
Washington, D. C. Phillips Memorial Gallery. "Picasso and Marin: An Exhibition," April 10–May 1, 1938, no. 13.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "75th Anniversary Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture by 75 Artists Associated with the Art Students League of New York," March 16–April 29, 1951, unnumbered cat. (p. 31).
Museum of Modern Art, New York. "From the Alfred Stieglitz Collection: An Extended Loan from the Metropolitan Museum of Art," May 22–August 12, 1951, no catalogue (checklist no. E.L.51.671; loan extended to February 8, 1955).
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. "John Marin Memorial Exhibition," March 1–April 17, 1955, no. 20 (wc) (as "Two Master Becalmed, Maine").
Washington, D. C. Phillips Gallery. "John Marin Memorial Exhibition," May 15–June 30, 1955, no. 20 (wc).
San Francisco Museum of Art. "John Marin Memorial Exhibition," July 19–September 11, 1955, no. 20 (wc).
University of California, Los Angeles. "John Marin Memorial Exhibition," September 28–November 9, 1955, no. 20 (wc).
Cleveland Museum of Art. "John Marin Memorial Exhibition," November 17, 1955–January 1, 1956, no. 20 (wc).
Minneapolis Institute of Arts. "John Marin Memorial Exhibition," February 3–March 20, 1956, no. 20 (wc).
Palm Beach. Society of the Four Arts. "John Marin Memorial Exhibition," March 9–20, 1956 (part 1, drawings, etchings and watercolors); March 23–April 1, 1956 (part 2, oils), no. 20 (wc).
University of Georgia, Athens. "John Marin Memorial Exhibition," May 1956, no. 20 (wc).
New York. Whitney Museum of American Art. "John Marin Memorial Exhibition," June 13–July 29, 1956, no. 20 (wc).
London. Arts Council Gallery. "John Marin: Paintings, Watercolours, Drawings, and Etchings: An Exhibition," September 22–October 20, 1956, no. 50.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Fourteen American Masters: Paintings from Colonial Times to Today," October 16, 1958–January 4, 1959, no catalogue.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "200 Years of Watercolor Painting in America," December 8, 1966–January 29, 1967, no. 158.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Paintings and Watercolors by John Marin," February 3–March 29, 1981, no catalogue.
Seattle Art Museum. "American Watercolors from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Selection 1," February 7–March 31, 1991, no. 132.
Tulsa. Thomas Gilcrease Institute of American History and Art. "American Watercolors from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Selection 1," April 20–June 15, 1991, no. 132.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "American Watercolors from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," October 15–December 10, 1991, no. 132.
Guy Eglington. "John Marin, Colorist and Painter of Sea Moods." Arts & Decoration 21 (August 1924), p. 14.
"Water-colour Painting." Encyclopaedia Britannica. Vol. 23, 14th ed. London, 1929, p. 410, pl. 4.
E[manuel]. M. Benson. John Marin: The Man and His Work. Washington, D.C., 1935, p. 83, pl. 25, calls it "Becalmed".
E[manuel]. M. Benson. "John Marin: The Man and His Work. Part 1: Marin, the Man." American Magazine of Art 28 (October 1935), p. 610, ill.
MacKinley Helm. John Marin. Boston, 1948, pp. 49, 155, pl. 17.
Frederick S. Wight inNew Art in America: Fifty Painters of the 20th Century. Ed. John I. H. Baur. Greenwich, Conn., 1957, ill. p. 47.
Carolyn Wynne. "Aspects of Space: John Marin and William Faulkner." American Quarterly 16, no. 1 (Spring 1964).
Albert Ten Eyck Gardner. History of Water Color Painting in America. New York, 1966, p. 115, pl. 100.
George Heard Hamilton. "The Alfred Stieglitz Collection." Metropolitan Museum Journal 3 (1970), pp. 390–91, fig. 23.
Sheldon Reich. John Marin: A Stylistic Analysis and Catalogue Raisonné. Tucson, 1970, vol. 1, p. 152, fig. 120, vol. 2, p. 531, fig. 23.82.
Victor Koshkin-Youritzin inAmerican Watercolors from The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Exh. cat., Seattle Art Museum. New York, 1991, p. 31, colorpl. 132.
Jessica Murphy inStieglitz and His Artists: Matisse to O'Keeffe. The Alfred Stieglitz Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Ed. Lisa Mintz Messinger. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 2011, pp. 175, 270–71, no. 138, ill. (color).
John Marin (American, Rutherford, New Jersey 1870–1953 Cape Split, Maine)
1913
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