Inscription: Signed and dated (lower right, in graphite and in watercolor, overlapping): Marin 34
the artist (to Stieglitz); Alfred Stieglitz, New York (probably 1934–d. 1946; his estate, 1946–49; gift to MMA)
New York. An American Place. "John Marin: Exhibition of Water-Colors, Drawings, Oils (1934–1935)," October 27–December 15, 1935, extended to January 1, 1936, no. 10.
Museum of Modern Art, New York. "John Marin: Watercolors, Oil Paintings, Etchings," October 19–November 22, 1936, no. 159.
Museum of Modern Art, New York. "Art in Our Time: An Exhibition to Celebrate the Tenth Anniversary of the Museum of Modern Art and the Opening of Its New Building," May 10–September 30, 1939, no. 214 (lent by Alfred Stieglitz, New York).
New York. Whitney Museum of American Art. "A History of American Watercolor Painting," January 27–February 25, 1942, unnumbered cat. (fig. 177).
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.51.674; loan extended to May 15, 1961).
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. "John Marin Memorial Exhibition," March 1–April 17, 1955, no. 54 (wc) (as "Young Man of the Sea, Maine Series, No. 10").
Washington, D. C. Phillips Gallery. "John Marin Memorial Exhibition," May 15–June 30, 1955, no. 54 (wc).
San Francisco Museum of Art. "John Marin Memorial Exhibition," July 19–September 11, 1955, no. 54 (wc).
University of California, Los Angeles. "John Marin Memorial Exhibition," September 28–November 9, 1955, no. 54 (wc).
Cleveland Museum of Art. "John Marin Memorial Exhibition," November 17, 1955–January 1, 1956, no. 54 (wc).
Minneapolis Institute of Arts. "John Marin Memorial Exhibition," February 3–March 20, 1956, no. 54 (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. 54 (wc).
University of Georgia, Athens. "John Marin Memorial Exhibition," May 1956, no. 54 (wc).
New York. Whitney Museum of American Art. "John Marin Memorial Exhibition," June 13–July 29, 1956, no. 54 (wc).
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Paintings and Watercolors by John Marin," February 3–March 29, 1981, no catalogue.
E[manuel]. M. Benson. John Marin: The Man and His Work. Washington, D.C., 1935, p. 89, pl. 49, calls it "Blue-Eyed Figure and Sea".
Emanuel M. Benson. "John Marin: The Man and His Work; part 2, Marin, the work." American Magazine of Art 28 (November 1935), p. 666, ill., as "Blue-Eyed Figure and Sea, Cape Split, Maine".
MacKinley Helm. John Marin. Boston, 1948, pp. 72, 203, pl. 41.
Sheldon Reich. John Marin: A Stylistic Analysis and Catalogue Raisonné. Tucson, 1970, vol. 1, p. 220, fig. 197, vol. 2, p. 666, fig. 34.36.
Irma B. Jaffe. "The Forming of the Avant-Garde, 1900–30." The Genius of American Painting. Ed. John Wilmerding. New York, 1973, ill. p. 217, calls it "Young Man of the Sea, Maine, Series No. 10".
Ruth E. Fine. John Marin. Exh. cat., National Gallery of Art. Washington, D.C., 1990, p. 238, fig. 230.
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. 187, 276, no. 169, ill. (color).
John Marin (American, Rutherford, New Jersey 1870–1953 Cape Split, Maine)
1913
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