John Marin 1870 - 1953

Estimate

80,000 - 120,000 USD

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Description

John Marin
Castorland, New York
signed Marin and dated 12, l.r.
oil on canvas
22 by 27 in.
(55.8 by 68.5 cm)
Painted in 1913.

Provenance

Estate of the artist
Kennedy Galleries, New York, 1981 (acquired from the above)
Andrew Crispo Gallery, New York, 1984 (acquired from the above)
Acquired by the present owners from the above, 1984

Exhibited

New York, Andrew Crispo Gallery, 19th and 20th Century, September 1984, no. 25
New York, Andrew Crispo Gallery, American Masters of the 20th Century, January-February 1985, no. 39
Roslyn, New York, Nassau County Museum of Art, American Vanguards, January-April 1996

Literature

Sheldon Reich, John Marin: Part II Catalogue Raisonné, Tucson, Arizona, 1970, no. 13.28, illustrated p. 377

Catalogue Note

Mackinley Helm writes, "In the summer of 1913, after the spring month in Brooklyn, the Marins, richer by $3,000 from the spring exhibition, went to Castorland, on the Black River in Lewis County, New York, where they made friends with the well-to-do hook-and-eye Baptists who owned the rich dairies in that rolling green countryside. They tramped mile after mile with picnic basket and easel, to find motifs for Marin's first batch of large oil paintings on canvas. Never exhibited and forgetfully dated as of 1912 at some later time, the six Castorland paintings... recall the rapid attack of the Palisades series, in the years before Paris, when Marin's style began to take shape in the cold winter weather" (John Marin, Boston, 1948, pp. 30-31).