id: 380065 accession number: 2020.137 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2020.137 updated: 2023-01-23 22:51:31.260000 Deer Island, 1916. John Marin (American, 1870–1953). 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 © Estate of John Marin / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York title: Deer Island title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1916 creation date earliest: 1914 creation date latest: 1914 current location: creditline: Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift copyright: © Estate of John Marin / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York --- culture: America technique: Watercolor on moderately thick, rough-textured wove paper department: Drawings collection: DR - American 20th Century type: Drawing find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * John Marin (American, 1870–1953) - artist --- measurements: Image and Sheet: 41.5 x 48.9 cm (16 5/16 x 19 1/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: In pencil, recto, lower right: "Marin 16" translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Impressionism to Modernism: The Keithley Collection opening date: 2022-09-11T04:00:00 Impressionism to Modernism: The Keithley Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 11, 2022-January 8, 2023). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE John Marin (the artist) [1872-1953] date: footnotes: citations: Dr. John Wendell date: footnotes: citations: Ned L. Pines, New York, NY date: footnotes: citations: Sotheby's, New York, NY date: November 29, 1990 footnotes: citations: Kennedy Galleries, Inc., New York, NY date: footnotes: citations: Mr. and Mrs. Joseph P. Keithley, Cleveland, OH date: footnotes: citations: the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: March 2, 2020 footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: 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." digital description: One of America’s 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’s 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—probably Marin's wife Marie—is barely discernible in the lower left as it blends with the island's vegetation. wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES