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"tombstone": "Deer Island, 1916. John Marin (American, 1870\u20131953). Watercolor on moderately thick, rough-textured wove paper; image and sheet: 41.5 x 48.9 cm (16 5/16 x 19 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift, 2020.137. \u00a9 Estate of John Marin / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York",
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"did_you_know": "Of Deer Isle, the Maine locale where he made this watercolor, John Marin wrote that it is \"a place of lovely spots and bad spots.\"",
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"description": "One of America\u2019s most important watercolorists, John Marin repeatedly challenged accepted ideas about what the medium could do, taking an improvisational approach to color, paint handling, perspective, and movement. This watercolor was made during Marin\u2019s first summer in Maine, 1914, a place that would become central to his watercolor practice for years to come. It was made on Deer Isle, a locale that provided sweeping vistas over Stonington Harbor and toward Mark Island in the distance. With his characteristic variety of marks, combining bold dashes with a dry brush in the lower right with transparent washes in the distant sky, Marin's goal was to capture the spontaneous feeling of a place. The shape of a figure\u2014probably Marin's wife Marie\u2014is barely discernible in the lower left as it blends with the island's vegetation.",
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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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"updated_at": "2026-06-11 12:17:40.734000"
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