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Title:New York City
Artist:John Marin (American, Rutherford, New Jersey 1870–1953 Cape Split, Maine)
Date:1932
Medium:Graphite on paper
Dimensions:4 1/2 × 4 3/16 in. (11.5 × 10.6 cm)
Classification:Drawings
Credit Line:Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1949
Object Number:49.70.150
Inscription: Signed and dated (lower right, in graphite): Marin 32
the artist (from 1932; to Stieglitz); Alfred Stieglitz, New York (by 1944–d. 1946; his estate, 1946–49; gift to MMA)
Philadelphia Museum of Art. "History of an American, Alfred Stieglitz: '291' and After, Selections from the Stieglitz Collection," July 1–November 1, 1944, no. 236.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. "John Marin Memorial Exhibition," March 1–April 17, 1955, no. 2 (dwg) (as “New York,” one of four sketches).
Washington, D. C. Phillips Gallery. "John Marin Memorial Exhibition," May 15–June 30, 1955, no. 2 (dwg).
San Francisco Museum of Art. "John Marin Memorial Exhibition," July 19–September 11, 1955, no. 2 (dwg).
University of California, Los Angeles. "John Marin Memorial Exhibition," September 28–November 9, 1955, no. 2 (dwg).
Cleveland Museum of Art. "John Marin Memorial Exhibition," November 17, 1955–January 1, 1956, no. 2 (dwg).
Minneapolis Institute of Arts. "John Marin Memorial Exhibition," February 3–March 20, 1956, no. 2 (dwg).
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. 2 (dwg).
University of Georgia, Athens. "John Marin Memorial Exhibition," May 1956, no. 2 (dwg).
New York. Whitney Museum of American Art. "John Marin Memorial Exhibition," June 13–July 29, 1956, no. 2 (dwg).
Utica, N. Y. Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute. "John Marin Drawings, 1886–1951," September 13–October 12, 1969, unnumbered cat. (fig. 57).
Minneapolis. University Gallery, University of Minnesota. "John Marin Drawings, 1886–1951," October 25–November 23, 1969, unnumbered cat.
Trenton State Museum. "John Marin Drawings, 1886–1951," December 6, 1969–January 4, 1970, unnumbered cat.
Cincinnati. Tangeman University Center. "John Marin Drawings, 1886–1951," January 17–February 15, 1970, unnumbered cat.
Austin. University Art Museum, University of Texas. "John Marin Drawings, 1886–1951," March 1–31, 1970, unnumbered cat.
Brunswick, Me. Bowdoin College Museum of Art. "John Marin Drawings, 1886–1951," April 15–May 17, 1970, unnumbered cat.
Oklahoma City. Oklahoma Art Center. "John Marin Drawings, 1886–1951," June 1–30, 1970, unnumbered cat.
Corning Museum of Glass. "John Marin Drawings, 1886–1951," July 15–August 30, 1970, unnumbered cat.
Champaign, Ill. Krannert Art Museum. "John Marin Drawings, 1886–1951," September 13–October 4, 1970, unnumbered cat.
Fort Worth. Amon Carter Museum of Western Art. "John Marin Drawings, 1886–1951," October 17–November 15, 1970, unnumbered cat.
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. "John Marin's New York: 1910–1936," August 23–November 9, 1997, no catalogue.
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. 186, 275, no. 165, ill. (color).
John Marin (American, Rutherford, New Jersey 1870–1953 Cape Split, Maine)
1913
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