Harvard Art Museums > 1928.5: Mt. Chocorua No. 1 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"Mt. Chocorua No. 1 (John Marin) , 1928.5,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Apr 19, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/306410. This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 1928.5 People John Marin, American (Rutherford, NJ 1870 - 1953 Addison, Cape Split, ME) Title Mt. Chocorua No. 1 Other Titles Former Title: Mt. Chocorua Classification Drawings Work Type drawing Date 1926 Places Creation Place: North America, United States, New Hampshire Culture American Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/306410 Physical Descriptions Medium Transparent and opaque watercolor and charcoal on heavy white wove paper Dimensions 43.7 × 56 cm (17 3/16 × 22 1/16 in.) mat: 46.4 × 59.1 cm (18 1/4 × 23 1/4 in.) frame: 58.4 × 71.3 × 2.4 cm (23 × 28 1/16 × 15/16 in.) Inscriptions and Marks Signed: dark blue watercolor at l.r.: Marin 26 exhibition label: backing board, paper, English: In ink [Stieglitz's hand]: No. 1--Mt. Chocorua-- White Mountains/ series 1926/ by John Marin/ Exhibition 1927. exhibition label: backing board, paper: from the exhibition John Marin 1870-1953 exhibition label: backing board, paper, English exhibition label: backing board, paper: Exhibition of Watercolors-- Homer, Sargent and Marin. 4/18- 6/11/47 exhibition label: backing board, paper, English: Masters of American Watercolor, 10/15- 11/20/49 exhibition label: backing board, paper, English: no. 54.1.3a-x inscription: verso, u.l., graphite, English: No. 7 inscription: verso, center, charcoal, English: I inscription: former backboard, graphite: Mt Chocorua White Mts / No 1 Series 1926 / John Marin inscription: former backboard, graphite: Mt Chocorua - White Mts. / No. 1 Series 1926 / John Marin Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, William M. Prichard Memorial Fund Copyright © Estate of John Marin / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Accession Year 1928 Object Number 1928.5 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. II, no. 26.27, reproduced in b/w Donelson F. Hoopes, American Watercolor Painting, Watson-Guptill Publications (New York, NY, 1977), ill. p. 159, p. 148 Rackstraw Downes, ed., Fairfield Porter: Art in its Own Terms, Taplinger Publishing Company (New York, NY, 1979), no. 45, reproduced in b/w p. 212 Caroline A. Jones, Modern Art at Harvard: The Formation of the Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Collections of the Harvard University Art Museums (New York, NY and Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Art Museums and Abbeville Press, 1985). With an essay by John Coolidge and a preface by John M. Rosenfield. To accompany the inaugural exhibition at the Sackler Museum, Oct 21 1985 - Jan 5 1986, fig. 19, reproduced in color p. 35 Modern Art at Harvard, exh. cat., Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Inc. (Tokyo, Japan, 1999), cat. no. 42, repr. (color) Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., "American Watercolors and Pastels, 1875-1950", American Art Review (April 2006), XVIII, no. 2, pp. 88-93, repr. p. 89 Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., American Watercolors and Pastels 1875-1950 at the Fogg Art Museum, brochure, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2006), checklist, repr. (n.p.) Joachim Homann, Margaret Morgan Grasselli, and Miriam Stewart, ed., American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2023), pp. 17, 96, repr. as pl. 27 on p. 96 Exhibition History Unidentified Exhibition, Intimate Gallery, 1927, Intimate Gallery, New York, 11/09/1927 - 12/11/1927 An Exhibition of American Art, Harvard Cooperative Society, Cambridge, 02/19/1929 - 03/15/1929 Unidentified Exhibition, Princeton University, 1931, Princeton University, Princeton, 12/28/1931 - 02/01/1932 Watercolors by 12 Americans, Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, 05/22/1933 - 06/26/1933 Five Americans, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, 05/19/1934 - 06/19/1934 Unidentified Exhibition, Lawrence College, 1935, Lawrence University, Appleton, 03/01/1935 - 04/30/1935 Unidentified Exhibition, Phillips Exeter Academy, 1935, Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, 10/14/1935 - 11/16/1935 Unidentified Exhibition, Fine Arts Guild, 1935, Fine Arts Guild, Cambridge, 11/29/1935 - 12/07/1935 American Watercolors from the Museum's Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 02/01/1936 - 02/29/1936 Ten American Watercolor Painters, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 04/15/1939 - 05/07/1939 Unidentified Exhibition, Institute of Modern Art, 1945, Institute of Modern Art (now Institute of Contemporary Art), Boston, 05/09/1945 - 07/24/1945 American Painting from the Eighteenth Century to the Present Day, Tate Britain, London, 06/01/1946 - 07/01/1946 Exhibition of Water Colors: Homer, Sargent, Marin, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, 04/18/1947 - 06/11/1947 Masters of American Watercolor, Wellesley College Museum of Art, Wellesley, 10/18/1949 - 11/20/1949 [John Marin], Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Boston, 05/01/1951 - 05/31/1951 [Expressionism Exhibition], Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, 11/01/1952 - 01/04/1953 [Marin Retrospective], Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, 01/19/1954 - 02/15/1954 150th Anniversary of the Discovery of the Old Man of the Mountains, Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, 07/15/1955 - 09/15/1955 John Marin 1870 - 1953, University of Arizona, Tucson, 02/09/1963 - 03/10/1963 Unidentified Exhibition, Lincoln Laboratory, 1965, Lincoln Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lexington, 05/20/1965 - 07/20/1965 Watercolors from the Fogg: An Historical Collection, St. Paul's School, Concord, 10/12/1971 - 11/20/1971 The American Landscape, Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, 11/15/1973 - 12/30/1973 The Harvard Society for Contemporary Art, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 08/29/1992 - 03/07/1993 Modern Art at Harvard, Bunkamura Museum of Art, Tokyo, 07/31/1999 - 09/26/1999; Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Kagawa, 10/09/1999 - 11/14/1999; Matsuzakaya Art Museum, Nagoya, 12/02/1999 - 12/27/1999; Oita City Museum, Oita, 01/06/2000 - 02/06/2000; Museum of Modern Art, Ibaraki, Ibaraki, 02/11/2000 - 03/26/2000 American Watercolors and Pastels, 1875-1950, at the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/08/2006 - 06/25/2006 American Art and Modernity, 1865–1965, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/04/2012 - 01/19/2013 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. 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