About this artwork
Marin delighted in making rapid sketches of circus animals and performers. Friends recall him drawing furiously with two hands, rarely looking at his paper as he worked. He was intent on capturing the complete sensation of the circus with the simplest means, evoking excitement through touches of color and movement through the rapid, directional gestures of his pencil or crayon. Small graphite and colored-pencil drawings on Mylar, such as this example, suggest how Marin might have made intermediate tracings from his circus sketchbooks, adding more detail and color as he developed an idea for a larger work.
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Prints and Drawings
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Artist
- John Marin
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Title
- Circus Horses
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Place
- United States (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- 1936–1946
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Medium
- Graphite and colored pencil, with incising, on mylar
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Dimensions
- 18.5 × 24 cm (7 5/16 × 9 1/2 in.)
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Credit Line
- Purchased with funds provided by Meg and Mark Hausberg in honor of Martha Tedeschi
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Reference Number
- 2010.353
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Copyright
- © 2018 Estate of John Marin / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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