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"inscription": "Written in pencil on verso: \"On Morse Mountain/#6-28\"",
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"inscription": "Written in pencil on verso: \"No 5 (scribbled out in pencil)\"",
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"title": "Impressionism to Modernism: The Keithley Collection",
"description": "Impressionism to Modernism: The Keithley Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 11, 2022-January 8, 2023).",
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"description": "Recent Watercolors: New Mexico and New York. An American Place, New York, NY (1930).",
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"description": "John Marin-A Retrospective Exhibition. Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (October 21-November 22, 1936).",
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"description": "John Marin: A Retrospective. Institute of Modern Art, Boston, MA (1947); Phillips Memorial Gallery, Washington, D.C. (1947); Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN (1947).",
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"description": "John Marin Memorial Exhibition. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA (1955-56); Phillips Gallery, Washington, D.C. (1955-56); San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA (1955-56); University of California Art Galleries, Los Angeles, CA (1955-56); the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (1955-56); Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN (1955-56); Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA (1955-56); Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (1955-56).",
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"description": "One of America's most important watercolor practitioners, John Marin spent every summer in Maine from 1914 through 1928, and the state's coastline became a central focus of his work. By the late 1920s, when this work was made, he was experimenting with bold black elements in his compositions and painted frames or borders. On Morse Mountain, No. 6, Maine shows Marin using dry charcoal to create areas of shocking black over which he layered inky black wash. The technique has the effect of framing the image and leading the eye toward the center. With its strikingly different character from other works made in Maine in 1914 (see 2020.134, 2020.136, 2020.137, 2020.138, 2020.139), the work shows how John Marin repeatedly challenged himself as well as the medium of watercolor with improvisations in color, paint handling, perspective, and movement.",
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"citation": "Fine, Ruth. \"John Marin.\" In The Keithley Collection at the Cleveland Museum of Art, edited by Heather Lemonedes Brown, 152-161. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2022.",
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