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Sold by the Whitney Museum of American Art to Support Future Acquisitions

John Marin

Movement, Boat, Sea, Rocks and Sky, Maine

Auction Closed

May 17, 10:38 PM GMT

Estimate

50,000 - 70,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Sold by the Whitney Museum of American Art to Support Future Acquisitions

John Marin

1872 - 1953


Movement, Boat, Sea, Rocks and Sky, Maine

signed Marin and dated 41 (lower right)

watercolor, pencil and charcoal on paper

15¼ by 21¾ in.

38.7 by 55.2 cm.

Executed in 1941. 

Acquired from the artist in 1942 by the present owner
Samuel M. Kootz, New Frontiers in American Painting, New York 1943, no. 61, pl. XVIII, n.p., illustrated
Lloyd Goodrich, Contemporary Painting from the United States, Great Britain and France, Toronto 1949, no. 106, p. 16
Whitney Museum of American Art, The Whitney Museum and its Collection: History, Purpose and Activities, Catalogue of the Collection, New York 1954, n.p.
Lloyd Goodrich and John I.H. Baur, American Art of Our Century, New York 1961, p. 285
Sheldon Reich, John Marin: Catalogue Raisonné, vol. II, Tucson 1970, no. 41.26, p. 717, illustrated
Patterson Sims, Decade of Transition: 1940-1950, New York 1981, n.p.
New York, An American Place, John Marin, 1941-42, no. 23
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1942-43 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Art, 1942-43, no. 142, n.p.
Minneapolis, Walker Art Center; The Detroit Museum of Art; San Francisco, The M.H. de Young Museum, American Watercolor and Winslow Homer, 1945, pp. 67 and 108, illustrated
New York, American Federation of the Arts and Youngstown, Ohio, Butler Art Institute, Contemporary American Watercolors from the Collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1945
Norfolk Museum of Arts and Sciences; Stanford University; San Francisco Museum of Art (and traveling), 1945-47
Nantucket, Massachusetts, Kenneth Taylor Galleries, 25 Watercolors from the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1949
Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, American Painting, 1950, no. 26, p. 38
Sao Paolo, Museum of Modern Art, First Bienal, 1951, no. 44
Syracuse Museum of Fine Arts, 125 Years of American Art, 1953, no. 46, p. 16, illustrated
Syracuse Museum of Fine Arts, Abstract Painting in America, 1953, no. 18, p. 88
Philadelphia, The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, The One Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary Exhibition, 1955, no. 249, pp. 144-45, illustrated
Stanford, California, Stanford University, Exhibition of Works from the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1957
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Between the Fairs, 1964, no. 81
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, American Art of the Twentieth Century, 1967
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, 20th Century Drawings from the Permanent Collection, 1975
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, American Art: 1920-1945, 1978
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Decade of Transition: 1940-1950, 1981
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Art in America from Hopper to Pollock, 2000
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Hopper to Mid-Century: Highlights from the Permanent Collection, 2003-04
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, American Legends: From Calder to O'Keeffe, 2012-14