id:			380066
accession number:	2020.138
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2020.138
updated:		2023-03-16 16:45:28.758000

West Point, near Small Point, Maine—Autumn, 1914. John Marin (American, 1870–1953). Watercolor with traces of graphite on thick, highly 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 2020.138 © Estate of John Marin / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

title:				West Point, near Small Point, Maine—Autumn
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creation date:			1914
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 with traces of graphite on thick, highly 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:	Recto, lower right: "Marin/14"
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	inscription:	Written in pencil on verso: "63= (circled)"
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	inscription:	Written in pencil on verso: "SR #347/16-1/4 x 19-1/4"
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	inscription:	Written in pencil on verso: "Small Point/ME"
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	inscription:	Written in pencil on verso: "1550 c (circled)"
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	inscription:	Written in pencil on verso: "ACC-ICC/JOCC (crossed out)"
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Impressionism to Modernism: The Keithley Collection
	opening date:   2022-09-11T04:00:00
	<i>Impressionism to Modernism: The Keithley Collection</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 11, 2022-January 8, 2023).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* <em>John Marin's autumn. </em>Kennedy Galleries, Inc. New York, NY (October 8-29, 1988).

* <em>John Marin, 1998-1999. </em>Richard York Gallery, New York, NY (1999).

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PROVENANCE

	Estate of the Artist
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	(Richard York Gallery, 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:
John Marin returned repeatedly to the site in Maine where he made this watercolor, each time portraying through color, paint handling, perspective, and movement his spontaneous experience of the place.

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. Marin often returned to the same spot repeatedly, making watercolors each time in response to the light and weather of the moment. <em>West Point near Small Point Maine, Autumn</em> is one of three watercolors in the CMA's collection made at the same spot (see 2020.136 and 2020.139). This watercolor shows Marin's responsiveness to the season and vegetation of autumn expressed through color and other hallmarks of his style, chiefly his great variety of marks, from bold dashes to transparent washes.

wall description:
From 1914 through 1928, John Marin spent every summer in Maine, and the state’s coastline became a central focus of his work. He often returned to the same location repeatedly, making watercolors in response to the light and weather conditions of the moment. Three of the watercolors on this wall were made in 1914 in roughly the same spot. The first captures the bright, new vegetation of spring expressed through color and a great variety of marks, from bold dashes to transparent washes. Next is a summer scene at twilight from a slightly higher viewpoint, exposing the pink reflectionsof the setting sun on the water. A purplish mist, almost animate, wends through the landscape. Finally, autumn appears on the third sheet in bright fall colors, a miasma of overgrown brush.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Reich, Sheldon, and John Marin. John Marin: A Stylistic Analysis and Catalogue Raisonné. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1970.
	page number: 	Vol II, no. 14.101, p. 404
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	Marin, John, and Ruth Fine. John Marin's Autumn: [Exhibition] October 8-29, 1988, at Kennedy Galleries, Inc. New York, NY (40 W. 57th St., New York 10019): The Galleries, 1988.
	page number: 	ill. no. 4
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