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        "accession_number": "1937.514",
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        "tombstone": "Tree and Sea, Maine, 1919. John Marin (American, 1870\u20131953). Watercolor on thick wove paper; 22.9 x 29.8 cm (9 x 11 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund, 1937.514. \u00a9 Estate of John Marin / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York",
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        "title": "Tree and Sea, Maine",
        "creation_date": "1919",
        "creation_date_earliest": 1919,
        "creation_date_latest": 1919,
        "artists_tags": [
            "male"
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        "culture": [
            "America"
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        "technique": "Watercolor on thick wove paper",
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        "department": "Drawings",
        "collection": "DR - American 20th Century",
        "type": "Drawing",
        "measurements": "22.9 x 29.8 cm (9 x 11 3/4 in.)",
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            "No Extent Specified": {
                "height": 0.229,
                "height_inch": 9,
                "height_inch_fraction": 0.0,
                "width": 0.298,
                "width_inch": 11,
                "width_inch_fraction": 0.75
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        "copyright": "\u00a9 Estate of John Marin / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York",
        "inscriptions": [],
        "exhibitions": {
            "current": [
                {
                    "id": 300831,
                    "title": "John Marin Memorial Exhibition",
                    "description": "<i>John Marin Memorial Exhibition</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (November 17, 1955-January 1, 1956); San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA (March 1-October 13, 1956); The Phillips Collection (March 1-October 13, 1956); Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN (March 1-October 13, 1956); Fowler Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA (March 1-October 13, 1956); Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA (March 1-October 13, 1956).",
                    "opening_date": "1955-11-17T05:00:00"
                },
                {
                    "id": 396695,
                    "title": "Impressionism to Modernism: The Keithley Collection",
                    "description": "<i>Impressionism to Modernism: The Keithley Collection</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 11, 2022-January 8, 2023).",
                    "opening_date": "2022-09-11T04:00:00"
                }
            ],
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        },
        "provenance": [
            {
                "description": "Estate of Charles T. Brooks",
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                "footnotes": null,
                "date": "1937",
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        "did_you_know": "In 1915, Marin bought a small island off the coast of Small Point Harbor, Maine.",
        "early_education_description": null,
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        "description": "By 1919, Marin was a summer regular in Maine where he continued to find inspiration for his experiments in watercolor. This composition focuses on an evergreen tree, which he often highlighted as a symbol of steadfastness amid a harsh and changing environment. Unusually realistic in terms of palette, Marin nevertheless played with the abstract shapes of the rising hill, horizon, and sea in this composition.",
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                "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q80011304"
            ],
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        },
        "citations": [
            {
                "citation": "Coe, Nancy. \"'Rocks and Sea, Small Point, Maine.'\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art </em>44, no. 1 (January 1957): 9-12.",
                "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 9",
                "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25142179"
            },
            {
                "citation": "Reich, Sheldon. John Marin: A Stylistic Analysis and Catalogue Raisonne\u0301. 2 vols. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1970.",
                "page_number": "II: 474, no. 19.43",
                "url": ""
            }
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        "creditline": "Dudley P. Allen Fund",
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                "description": "John Marin (American, 1870\u20131953)",
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                "birth_year": "1870",
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        "legal_status": "accessioned",
        "accession_date": "1937-12-20T00:00:00",
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        "date_added_to_oa": null,
        "date_text": "1919",
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        "alternate_titles": [],
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        "updated_at": "2026-05-01 06:47:55.548000"
    }
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