John Marin

The Downtown Gallery, New York
Kennedy Galleries Inc., New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1984

Oil on canvasboard. In generally good condition, scattered soiling to paint surface, a vertical line at left. Under ultraviolet light: no apparent sign of inpainting, darker colors fluoresce.
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This work is part of Marin's Weehawken Sequence, a series of oil sketches the artist painted between 1910-1916, just after his return from five years in Paris.  He added dates to these works sometime after they were painted and often assigned incorrect earlier dates to them, as is the case here.