Movement No 23–The Sea and Pertaining Thereto
<p>Marin employed colored pencil differently in this sheet than he had in previous works, adding watercolor pigment subtly and tentatively and leaving thin gray lines that he neither reinforced nor repeated. While he used underdrawing to outline solid objects, he drew over the washes in order to indicate intangible pictorial elements such as the direction of the waves; the fine lines add touches of precision to the fluid, wet-into-wet paint effects that predominate.</p>
Catalogue
- Year
- 1927
- Dimensions
- Primary support: 35.2 × 45.7 cm (13 7/8 × 18 in.); Secondary support, including decorative collar: 37.5 × 47.5 cm (14 13/16 × 18 3/4 in.); Tertiary support: 44 × 53.7 cm (17 3/8 × 21 3/16 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- John Marin
Artist
Painting
John Marin was an American modernist painter and printmaker known for his dynamic watercolors and etchings of coastal landscapes, particularly Maine. Working primarily in watercolor from the 1910s onward, he developed a fractured, energetic visual language that synthesized Cubist fragmentation with direct observation of nature. His gestural brushwork and bold use of paper's white ground anticipated Abstract Expressionism while maintaining a strong sense of place and atmospheric condition. Marin spent decades based in Maine, where the rocky coastlines and maritime environment became the primary subject of his mature work.
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- John Marin
- Year
- 1927
- Dimensions
- Primary support: 35.2 × 45.7 cm (13 7/8 × 18 in.); Secondary support, including decorative collar: 37.5 × 47.5 cm (14 13/16 × 18 3/4 in.); Tertiary support: 44 × 53.7 cm (17 3/8 × 21 3/16 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1927-131284
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- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
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- aic
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