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The Brook

A work made of watercolor with rewetting, blotting, wiping, and touches of scraping, over touches of graphite, on thick, rough-textured, ivory wove paper (lower and right edges trimmed).
© 2018 Estate of John Marin / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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  • A work made of watercolor with rewetting, blotting, wiping, and touches of scraping, over touches of graphite, on thick, rough-textured, ivory wove paper (lower and right edges trimmed).

Date:

1910

Artist:

John Marin
American, 1870-1953

About this artwork

In his watercolors of rushing streams made in the Austrian Tyrol, Marin denoted hovering mists and the free-flowing movement of water over rocks by adding layers of wet color to stain the paper and then wiping them away, creating soft, ghostly areas of almost subliminal color. He conjured the shape of a shrub by subtracting pigment, perhaps with the handle of his brush, adding touches of blue to draw the eye into the haze. Cementing his reputation as a “master of mists,” the Tyrol watercolors earned Marin many new admirers and are still counted among his most important watercolors.

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

John Marin

Title

The Brook

Place

United States (Artist's nationality:)

Date  Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.

Made 1910

Medium

Watercolor with rewetting, blotting, wiping, and touches of scraping, over touches of graphite, on thick, rough-textured, ivory wove paper (lower and right edges trimmed)

Dimensions

Max: 47 × 39.1 cm (18 9/16 × 15 7/16 in.)

Credit Line

Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial Collection

Reference Number

1926.218

Copyright

© 2018 Estate of John Marin / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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