id:			380065
accession number:	2020.137
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2020.137
updated:		2022-06-29 09:01:15.239000

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
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creation date:			1916
creation date earliest:		1914
creation date latest:		1914
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creditline:			Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift
copyright:			© Estate of John Marin / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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culture:	America
technique:	Watercolor on moderately thick, rough-textured wove paper
department:	Drawings
collection:	DR - American 20th Century
type:		Drawing
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CREATORS

* John Marin (American, 1870-1953)  - artist

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measurements: Image and Sheet: 41.5 x 48.9 cm (16 5/16 x 19 1/4 in.)
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	inscription:	In pencil, recto, lower right: "Marin 16"
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	John Marin (the artist) [1872-1953]
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	Dr. John Wendell
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	Ned L. Pines, New York, NY
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	Sotheby's, New York, NY
	date: November 29, 1990
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	Kennedy Galleries, Inc., New York, NY
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	Mr. and Mrs. Joseph P. Keithley, Cleveland, OH
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	the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: March 2, 2020
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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.

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