Inscription: Signed and dated (lower right, in black watercolor): MARIN/ 10
the artist (from 1910; to Stieglitz); Alfred Stieglitz, New York (probably 1912–d. 1946; his estate, 1946–49; gift to MMA)
Museum of Modern Art, New York. "John Marin: Watercolors, Oil Paintings, Etchings," October 19–November 22, 1936, no. 11.
Washington, D. C. Phillips Memorial Gallery. "Picasso and Marin: An Exhibition," April 10–May 1, 1938, no. 1.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "20th Century Painters: A Special Exhibition of Oils, Water Colors and Drawings Selected from the Collections of American Art in the Metropolitan Museum," June 16–October 29, 1950, unnum. brochure (p. 15).
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.51.667, loan extended to June 9, 1958).
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. "Paintings and Watercolors by John Marin," February 3–March 29, 1981, no catalogue.
Canberra. Australian National Gallery. "20th Century Masters from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York," March 1–April 27, 1986, unnumbered cat. (p. 48).
Brisbane. Queensland Art Gallery. "20th Century Masters from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York," May 7–July 1, 1986, unnumbered cat.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "John Marin Watercolors," March 26–August 26, 2012, no catalogue.
Camera Work no. 39 (August 1912), p. 635, ill., as "In the Tirol," no. 13.
Laurie Eglington. "Twenty-five Years of Marin Shown at an American Place." Art News 32 (October 28, 1933), p. 11.
Waldo Frank, Lewis Mumford, Dorothy Norman, Paul Rosenfeld, and Harold Rugg, ed. America and Alfred Stieglitz: A Collective Portrait. Garden City, N. Y., 1934, pl. XVIIA.
E[manuel]. M. Benson. John Marin: The Man and His Work. Washington, D.C., 1935, p. 65, pl. 10.
Edward Alden Jewell. "John Marin's Art in Two Exhibitions." New York Times (October 17, 1939), p. 29.
MacKinley Helm. John Marin. Boston, 1948, pp. 23, 137, pl. 8.
Carolyn Wynne. "Aspects of Space: John Marin and William Faulkner." American Quarterly 16, no. 1 (Spring 1964), p. 60.
Sheldon Reich. John Marin: A Stylistic Analysis and Catalogue Raisonné. Tucson, 1970, vol. 2, p. 353, fig. 10.76.
Simone Philippi and Ute Kieseyer, ed. Alfred Stieglitz. Camera Work: The Complete Illustrations, 1903–1917. Cologne, 1997, p. 635, ill.
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. 163, 267, no. 118, ill. (color).
Samantha Friedman. Georgia O'Keeffe: To See Takes Time. Exh. cat., Museum of Modern Art, New York. New York, 2023, pp. 63, 65 n. 9, fig. 2 (color).
John Marin (American, Rutherford, New Jersey 1870–1953 Cape Split, Maine)
1913
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