Pine Tree
1917
John Marin
American, 1870-1953
American Art
A devoted modernist, landscape painter, and watercolorist, John Marin created compositions of partial forms—the essential elements of a view—using a rough charcoal sketch and passages of directionally applied watercolor washes that together suggest light and movement. He routinely allowed substantial areas of the paper support to remain unpainted—a technique that was usually less successful in his oils, in which he left areas of unpainted canvas exposed.
- Maker/Artist
- Marin, John
- Classification
- Watercolor
- Formatted Medium
- Watercolor and charcoal on cream, thick, rough textured wove paper
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 19 3/8 x 16 3/8 in. (49.2 x 41.6 cm) Frame: 30 x 24 x 1 1/2 in. (76.2 x 61 x 3.8 cm)
- Departments
- American Art
- Accession Number
- 70.147
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Milton Lowenthal
- Exhibitions
- Brushed with Light: American Landscape Watercolors from the Collection, Modernist Art from the Edith and Milton Lowenthal Collection, Curator's Choice: American Artists of the Alfred Stieglitz Circle
- Rights Statement
- © artist or artist's estate
- Museum Location
- This item is not on view
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