Sea Fantasy (obverse); Seascape (reverse)
John Marin, American, 1870 - 1953
1942
Watercolor and black chalk over graphite indications on wove paper (obverse); Watercolor and graphite (reverse) on paper
Sheet: 10 × 12 9/16 in. (25.4 × 31.9 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Bequest of Jay R. Wolf, Class of 1951
W.976.191
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Watercolor
Research Area
Watercolor
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed and dated, lower right: Marin 42
Course History
ARTH 17, The Power of Place: Urban and Rural Images in American Art, 1900-1945, Sarah Powers, Winter 2014
Exhibition History
Acquisitions 1974-1978, Jaffe-Friede, Strauss and Barrows Galleries, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, December 8, 1978-January 21, 1979.
The Jay Wolf Bequest of Contemporary Art, Beaumont-May Gallery, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 24-August 28, 1977.
Publication History
Barbara J. MacAdam, Marks of Distinction, Two Hundred Years of American Drawings and Watercolors from the Hood Museum of Art, Manchester, Vermont: Hudson Hills Press, 2005, ill. p. 240.
Provenance
Julius (Jay) Rosenthal Wolf (1929-1976), Class of 1951, New York, New York; given to present collection, 1976.
Catalogue Raisonne
S. Reich, John Marin: A Stylistic Analysis and Catalogue Raisonne, Tucson, Arzona, 1970, no. 42.34, p. 725 (illus.)
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