Inscription: Signed and dated (lower right, in charcoal and gray watercolor, overlapping): Marin/ 32
the artist (from 1932; to Stieglitz); Alfred Stieglitz, New York (probably 1934–d. 1946; his estate, 1946–49; gift to MMA)
New York. An American Place. "John Marin: New Water Colors, New Oils, New Etchings," December 20, 1933–February 1, 1934, no catalogue (checklist no. 15).
Museum of Modern Art, New York. "John Marin: Watercolors, Oil Paintings, Etchings," October 19–November 22, 1936, no. 143.
New York. An American Place. "Exhibition of Four Americans: Dove, Marin, O'Keeffe, Stieglitz, and Picasso," October 17–November 27, 1941, no. 8.
New York. Whitney Museum of American Art. "A History of American Watercolor Painting," January 27–February 25, 1942, no. 171.
Museum of Modern Art, New York. "Alfred Stieglitz Exhibition: His Collection," June 10–August 31, 1947, no catalogue (checklist no. 67).
Art Institute of Chicago. "Alfred Stieglitz: His Photographs and His Collection," February 2–29, 1948, no catalogue.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. "John Marin Memorial Exhibition," March 1–April 17, 1955, no. 50 (wc).
Washington, D. C. Phillips Gallery. "John Marin Memorial Exhibition," May 15–June 30, 1955, no. 50 (wc).
San Francisco Museum of Art. "John Marin Memorial Exhibition," July 19–September 11, 1955, no. 50 (wc).
University of California, Los Angeles. "John Marin Memorial Exhibition," September 28–November 9, 1955, no. 50 (wc).
Cleveland Museum of Art. "John Marin Memorial Exhibition," November 17, 1955–January 1, 1956, no. 50 (wc).
Minneapolis Institute of Arts. "John Marin Memorial Exhibition," February 3–March 20, 1956, no. 50 (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. 50 (wc).
University of Georgia, Athens. "John Marin Memorial Exhibition," May 1956, no. 50 (wc).
New York. Whitney Museum of American Art. "John Marin Memorial Exhibition," June 13–July 29, 1956, no. 50 (wc).
London. Arts Council Gallery. "John Marin: Paintings, Watercolours, Drawings, and Etchings: An Exhibition," September 22–October 20, 1956, no. 73.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "200 Years of Watercolor Painting in America," December 8, 1966–January 29, 1967, no. 163.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Paintings and Watercolors by John Marin," February 3–March 29, 1981, no catalogue.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "American Drawing: 1930s," April–September 8, 1996, no catalogue.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "John Marin Watercolors," March 26–August 26, 2012, no catalogue.
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. XVIIIC, as "A Bit of New England".
Emanuel M. Benson. "The American Scene." American Magazine of Art 27 (February 1934), pp. 57, 59, ill.
Wings 8 (December 1934), p. 14, ill., as "A Bit of New England".
E[manuel]. M. Benson. John Marin: The Man and His Work. Washington, D.C., 1935, p. 84, pl. 44.
Jerome Mellquist. "John Marin, Painter of American Nature." Brooklyn Daily Eagle (October 25, 1936), p. C11.
MacKinley Helm. John Marin. Boston, 1948, p. 69, pl. G facing p. 66.
A. L. Chanin. Art Guide/ New York. New York, 1965, p. 97, fig. 144.
Sheldon Reich. John Marin: A Stylistic Analysis and Catalogue Raisonné. Tucson, 1970, vol. 2, p. 648, fig. 32.33.
Donna M. Cassidy. Marsden Hartley: Race, Region, and Nation. Hanover, N.H., 2005, p. 24, fig. 1.3.
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. 184, 275, no. 163, ill. (color).
John Marin (American, Rutherford, New Jersey 1870–1953 Cape Split, Maine)
1913
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