Harvard Art Museums > 2002.296: The Cove, Cape Split, Maine Drawings Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"The Cove, Cape Split, Maine (John Marin)(Frame by John Marin) , 2002.296,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Apr 20, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/101462. This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 2002.296 People John Marin, American (Rutherford, NJ 1870 - 1953 Addison, Cape Split, ME) Frame by John Marin, American (Rutherford, NJ 1870 - 1953 Addison, Cape Split, ME) Title The Cove, Cape Split, Maine Classification Drawings Work Type drawing Date 1936 Culture American Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/101462 Physical Descriptions Medium Transparent and opaque watercolor and black chalk on off-white wove paper mounted to board Dimensions 39.2 × 52.5 cm (15 7/16 × 20 11/16 in.) mat: 45.4 × 58.4 cm (17 7/8 × 23 in.) frame: 51.8 × 64.8 × 2.4 cm (20 3/8 × 25 1/2 × 15/16 in.) Inscriptions and Marks Signed: l.r., black ink: Marin 36 gallery label: printed and typed: THE DOWNTOWN GALLERY 32 E. 51st St., New York / ARTIST: JOHN MARIN NO: 3617 / TITLE: THE COVE, CAPE SPLIT--MAINE DATE: 1936 / MEDIUM: WATERCOLOR SIZE: 20 5/8 X 15 1/2 [S.P. number is whited out] inscription: On verso, in graphite: "green as in pasture" or "green as in picture" Provenance Recorded Ownership History Possibly [The Downtown Gallery, New York, New York]. Herbert and Mildred Lee, Boston, Massachusetts, gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 2002. Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert C. Lee in honor of James Cuno Copyright © Estate of John Marin / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Accession Year 2002 Object Number 2002.296 Division Modern and Contemporary Art Contact am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Publication History Sheldon Reich, John Marin: A Stylistic Analysis and Catalogue Raisonné, University of Arizona Press (Tucson, AZ, 1970), vol. 2, no. 36.40, repr. p. 683 Harvard University Art Museums, Harvard University Art Museums Annual Report 2002-2003 (Cambridge, MA, 2004), repr. p. 18 Debra Bricker Balken, John Marin: Modernism at Midcentury, exh. cat., Yale University Press (U.S.) (New Haven and London, 2011), pp. 14, 22-23, 98, ill. (color) Timothy Standring, [Review] "American Watercolors, 1880-1990: Into the Light", The Burlington Magazine (August 2023), 165, pp. 908-911, p. 910 Joachim Homann, Margaret Morgan Grasselli, and Miriam Stewart, ed., American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2023), repr. as pl. 28 on p. 97 Exhibition History John Marin Retrospective Exhibition, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, 01/14/1962 - 02/11/1962 John Marin: Modernism at Midcentury, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, 06/23/2011 - 10/09/2011 American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 05/20/2023 - 08/13/2023 Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of Modern and Contemporary Art at am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
