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

John Marin

Sea Piece

Auction Closed

May 17, 10:38 PM GMT

Estimate

200,000 - 300,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

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

John Marin

1872 - 1953


Sea Piece

signed Marin and dated 51 (lower right)

oil on canvas

22 by 28 in.

55.9 by 71.1 cm.

Executed in 1951. 

The Downtown Gallery, New York (acquired from the artist)
Acquired from the above in 1957 by the present owner
Lloyd Goodrich and John I.H. Baur, American Art of Our Century, New York 1961, pp. 172 and 285, illustrated
Sheldon Reich, John Marin: Catalogue Raisonné, vol. II, Tucson 1970, no. 51.39, p. 797, illustrated
New York, The Downtown Gallery, John Marin, 1952
New York, The Whitney Museum of American Art, 1952 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, 1952-53
Houston, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, John Marin, 1953-54
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, The First Five Years, 1962, illustrated
Seattle, Seattle World's Fair, Fine Arts Pavilion, Century 21 Exposition, Masterpieces of Art, 1962, no. 18, pp. 50-51, illustrated
Tucson, University of Arizona Art Gallery, John Marin Exhibition, 1963, no. 104, illustrated
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Minneapolis, University of Minnesota, University Gallery; Cambridge, Fogg Art Museum, 20th Century Master Drawings, 1963-64, no. 70
Waterville, Colby College, Maine—100 Artists of the 20th Century, 1964, p. 37
La Jolla Museum of Art, Marin-Hartley Exhibit, 1965, no. 40, n.p.
Bayville, New York, Fidel School of Creative Arts, The Scope of Realism in American Painting: First Half of Our Century, 1965, no. 4
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Art of the United States: 1670-1966, 1966, no. 182, p. 151
Detroit, The Arwin Galleries Inc., 1967
Savannah, Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences and Palm Beach, Society of the Four Arts, American Paintings from the Whitney Museum, 1968
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Twenty-Four 20th Century Americans, Selections from the Permanent Collection, 1968
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Selections from the Permanent Collection, 1968-69
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Landmarks of American Art: 1900-1960, Selections from the Permanent Collection, 1970
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, The 20th Century: Thirty Five American Artists, Selections from the Permanent Collection, 1974
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, 30 Years of American Art: 1945-1975, Selections from the Permanent Collection, 1977
South Bend, The Art Center, Inc., Twentieth Century American Masters, 1978, pp. 70-71, illustrated
Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts; Jackson Art Association; Memphis, Brooks Memorial Art Gallery, American Art 1934-1956: Selections from the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1978, no. 29, p. 21
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Introduction to 20th Century American Art, Selections from the Permanent Collection, 1978-79
Evanston, Terra Museum of American Art, Five American Masters of Watercolor, 1981
New York, Kennedy Galleries, Inc., n.d.
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, A Year in the Collection Circa 1952, 1994
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Hopper to Mid-Century: Highlights from the Permanent Collection, 2000
Asheville Art Museum, The Nature of Inspiration: Modern Masters from the Whitney Museum, 1999-2000