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John Marin American, 1870-1953
Sunset, 1914
Watercolour on paper
40 x 48 cm
15.75 x 19 in
15.75 x 19 in
1180002
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Provenance
The artist;Weyhe Gallery, New York;
Acquired from the above in 1931 by previous owner;
Acquired by JC Gallery;
Exhibitions
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Watercolors, Drawings, Prints from the Permanent Collection, 1932New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Summer Exhibition: Paintings, Sculpture, Prints and Watercolors, 1933
New York, Cosmopolitan Club, 1934
Venice, Italy, XIX Esposizione Biennale Internazionale D'arte, 1934, no. 80, p. 336, illustrated
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Sculpture, Paintings and Prints from the Permanent Collection, 1935
San Francisco, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, Exhibition of American Painting, 1935
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Recent Acquisitions, 1937
Boston, E.T. Slattery Company, Contemporary American Painting, 1937, no. 47, n.p.
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Summer Exhibition: Sculpture, Paintings and Watercolors from the Permanent Collection, 1937, no. 95, n.p.
Minneapolis, Minnesota, The St. Paul Gallery and School of Art, Fifty Contemporary Paintings and Watercolors from the Permanent Collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1940
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Exhibition of Paintings, Sculpture, Watercolors, 1940
Buenos Aires, Argentina, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes; Bogota, Colombia; Buenos Aires, Argentina; Caracas, Venezuela; Havana, Cuba; Lima, Peru; Mexico City, Mexico; Montevideo, Uruguay; New York, New York; Quito, Ecuador; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Santiago, Chile (exact venues unknown), Pioneers of Modern Art in America, 1941
Portland, Oregon, Portland Art Museum; South Hadley, Massachusetts, Mount Holyoke College; Minneapolis, Minnesota, University of Minnesota; Rochester,
New York, Rochester Memorial Art Gallery; Roanoke, Virginia, Hollins College, Fifty Watercolors from the Collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1942-43
Reykjavik, Iceland, Office of War Information, 1944
Minneapolis, Minnesota, The Walker Art Center; Detroit, The Detroit Institute of Arts; Brooklyn, The Brooklyn Museum, American Watercolor and Winslow Homer, 1945, n.n., p. 68, illustrated
Utica, New York, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, John Marin, Watercolors, Oils, Prints and Drawings, 1951, no. 4
Hempstead, New York, Hofstra College, Contemporary Americans, 1953
Boulder, Colorado, University of Colorado, Exhibition of Paintings, 1953
Vancouver, British Columbia, Vancouver Art Gallery, 1955
Waterville, Maine, Colby College; Brunswick, Maine, Bowdoin College; New Britain, Connecticut, The New Britain Institute Art Museum, Twentieth Century American Paintings, 1958
Katonah, New York, Katonah Gallery, John Marin Exhibition, 1959
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Coe College, Fine Arts Festival, 1959
New York, Downtown Gallery, American Abstractions, 1903-1923, 1962
Columbia, South Carolina, Columbia Museum of Art, Ascendancy of American Painting, 1963, no. 49, p. 5, illustrated
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; St. Louis, City Art Museum of St. Louis; Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art; Philadelphia, The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago; Buffalo, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, The Decade of the Armory Show, New Directions in American Art 1910-1920, Sixth Loan Exhibition by the friends of the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1963-64, no. 60, p. 73
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, American Art of the Twentieth Century, 1967
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Twenty-Four 20th Century Americans, 1967
Holmdel, New Jersey, Monmouth Museum, Modern Sculpture from the Whitney, 1969
Katonah, New York, The Katonah Gallery, Alfred Stieglitz and His Circle, 1971
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, The 20th Century: 35 American Artists, an Exhibition of Works from the Permanent Collection, 1974
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Circa 1910, 1977
Charleston, South Carolina, Gibbes Art Gallery; New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Tradition and Modernism in American Art: 1900-1930, 1978-79
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, A Mirror of Creation: 150 Years of American Nature Painting, 1981, no. 34, p. 41, illustrated
Portland, Oregon, Portland Museum of Art, John Marin in Maine, 1985, no. 6
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, Modern Art and America: Alfred Stieglitz and His New York Galleries, 2001, no. 244, illustrated in color
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Highlights from the Permanent Collection: From Hopper to Mid-Century, 2000-06
London, JC Gallery, James Ward presents: American Modernism, 2023
London, JC Gallery, James Ward Presents: Seven Americans, 2024
Literature
Lloyd Goodrich & John Baur, American art of our century, New York, 1961, n.n., p. 36Sheldon Reich, John Marin: A Stylistic Analysis and Catalogue Raisonné, vol. II, Tucson, Arizona, 1970, no. 14.67, p. 399
Julie Johnson & Donald Hollenbeck, Yellow Level (11th grade), Evanston, Illinois, 1984, p. 748, illustrated in color
Whitney Museum of American Art, History, Purpose and Activities, with a complete list of works in its permanent collection to January, 1935, New York, 1935, p. 20
Whitney Museum of American Art, History, Purpose and Activities, with a complete list of works in its permanent collection to January, 1937, New York, 1937, p. 27
Maine became an important muse for Marin during his summer vacations, which is exampled in the present work ‘Sunset’. Marin first visited Maine in 1914, meaning ‘Sunset’ was one of his first (of what was to become many) in a series of seascapes based there.
This period was significant due to the abstract shorthand he developed over this time; it substituted a more representational style. The way Marin painted the same subject from the same viewpoint but created very different images suggests that the nature of how one sees their subject was deeply important to Marin.
This work was brought by the Whitney Museum in 1931 and was exhibited in multiple important exhibitions until it’s decommission.
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