Inscription: Signed and dated (lower right, in watercolor over graphite): Marin 27
the artist (from 1927; to Stieglitz); Alfred Stieglitz, New York (probably 1928–d. 1946; his estate, 1946–49; gift to MMA)
Intimate Gallery, New York. "Marin Exhibition," November 14–December 29, 1928, no. 45.
Worcester, Mass. Worcester Art Museum. "Exhibition of American Painting of Today," December 1, 1933–January 15, 1934, no. 88 (as "White Mountains, Autumn").
Museum of Modern Art, New York. "John Marin: Watercolors, Oil Paintings, Etchings," October 19–November 22, 1936, no. 99.
New York. Whitney Museum of American Art. "A History of American Watercolor Painting," January 27–February 25, 1942, no. 175 (as "White Mountains, Autumn").
Art Institute of Chicago. "Alfred Stieglitz: His Photographs and His Collection," February 2–29, 1948, no catalogue.
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.51.673; loan extended to February 8, 1955).
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. "John Marin Memorial Exhibition," March 1–April 17, 1955, no. 36 (wc) (as "White Mountains, Autumn").
Washington, D. C. Phillips Gallery. "John Marin Memorial Exhibition," May 15–June 30, 1955, no. 36 (wc).
San Francisco Museum of Art. "John Marin Memorial Exhibition," July 19–September 11, 1955, no. 36 (wc).
University of California, Los Angeles. "John Marin Memorial Exhibition," September 28–November 9, 1955, no. 36 (wc).
Cleveland Museum of Art. "John Marin Memorial Exhibition," November 17, 1955–January 1, 1956, no. 36 (wc).
Minneapolis Institute of Arts. "John Marin Memorial Exhibition," February 3–March 20, 1956, no. 36 (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. 36 (wc).
University of Georgia, Athens. "John Marin Memorial Exhibition," May 1956, no. 36 (wc).
New York. Whitney Museum of American Art. "John Marin Memorial Exhibition," June 13–July 29, 1956, no. 36 (wc).
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. 160.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Paintings and Watercolors by John Marin," February 3–March 29, 1981, no catalogue (as "White Mountains, Autumn").
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. XIXC.
E[manuel]. M. Benson. John Marin: The Man and His Work. Washington, D.C., 1935, p. 84, pl. 35, calls it "White Mountains, Autumn".
Emanuel M. Benson. "John Marin: The Man and His Work; part 2, Marin, the work." American Magazine of Art 28 (November 1935), p. 660, ill.
Jerome Mellquist. "John Marin, Painter of American Nature." Brooklyn Daily Eagle (October 25, 1936), p. 10C, ill.
MacKinley Helm. John Marin. Boston, 1948, pp. 61, 165, pl. 22.
George Heard Hamilton. "The Alfred Stieglitz Collection." Metropolitan Museum Journal 3 (1970), pp. 390, 394, fig. 24.
Sheldon Reich. John Marin: A Stylistic Analysis and Catalogue Raisonné. Tucson, 1970, vol. 2, p. 585, fig. 27.47.
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. 180, 272, no. 148, ill. (color).
John Marin (American, Rutherford, New Jersey 1870–1953 Cape Split, Maine)
1913
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