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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1948.39
People
John Marin, American (Rutherford, NJ 1870 - 1953 Addison, Cape Split, ME)
Title
Trinity Church, New York
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1911
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/308249

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor and black chalk on off-white wove paper
Dimensions
22.9 × 18.9 cm (9 × 7 7/16 in.)
frame: 49.4 × 40 × 1.9 cm (19 7/16 × 15 3/4 × 3/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: graphite, l.r.: Marin
  • gallery label: backing, paper, stamped and handwritten: [stamped:] AN AMERICAN PLACE / ROOM 1710-- / 500 MADISON AVE. / NEW YORK, --N.Y. / [blue ink, handwritten-- Stieglitz's hand?:] Trinity Church, N.Y.-- 1920 / by John Marin
  • exhibition label: backing, paper, printed
  • label: backing, paper, printed and handwritten: [printed in black ink:] JOHN MARIN / [handwritten in blue ink-- Stieglitz's hand?:] Acquired by J. Zirinsky / M'ch 1944 / OK'd by Alfred Stieglitz
  • exhibition label: backing, paper

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
J. Zirinsky, Michigan. Paul J. Sachs, Cambridge, Massachusetts (L. 2091), gift; to the Fogg Art Museum, 1948.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Meta and Paul J. Sachs
Copyright
© Estate of John Marin / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
Accession Year
1948
Object Number
1948.39
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Sheldon Reich, John Marin: A Stylistic Analysis and Catalogue Raisonné, University of Arizona Press (Tucson, AZ, 1970), no. 11.24, repr.
  • 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, repr. in color, p. 34, fig. 18
  • 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. 25 on p. 94

Exhibition History

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