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John Marin

Sunset

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December 16, 04:25 PM GMT

Estimate

30,000 - 50,000 USD

Lot Details

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

John Marin

1870 - 1953

Sunset


signed Marin and dated 14 (lower left)

watercolor on paper

16½ by 19¼ in.

Executed in 1914.

The artist

Weyhe Gallery, New York

Acquired from the above in 1931 by the present owner

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Watercolors, Drawings, Prints from the Permanent Collection, 1932

New 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

Lloyd Goodrich & John Baur, American art of our century, New York, 1961, n.n., p. 36

Sheldon 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