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Cape Split, Maine

A work made of watercolor with touches of blotting, and with graphite and black colored pencil, on lightweight (estimated), slightly textured, ivory wove paper (top, left and right edges trimmed), laid down on artists’ board faced with ivory wove paper, in original frame.
© 2018 Estate of John Marin / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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  • A work made of watercolor with touches of blotting, and with graphite and black colored pencil, on lightweight (estimated), slightly textured, ivory wove paper (top, left and right edges trimmed), laid down on artists’ board faced with ivory wove paper, in original frame.

Date:

1941

Artist:

John Marin
American, 1870-1953

About this artwork

In this work, blue and pink lines hover above the horizon, indicating fair weather for both sailing and painting. Marin evoked the complexity of the surf with a wide range of paint applications: dry brushstrokes for the water’s texture; intervals of wet-into-wet; amorphous washes to suggest foreground rocks; pale blue tints over white paper for sea foam; and multiple shades of black, blue, and green to evoke depth and movement below the waves. He then used pencil to delineate the rock forms, applying watercolor over graphite and vice versa.

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

John Marin

Title

Cape Split, Maine

Place

United States (Artist's nationality:)

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Made 1941

Medium

Watercolor with touches of blotting, and with graphite and black colored pencil, on lightweight (estimated), slightly textured, ivory wove paper (top, left and right edges trimmed), laid down on artists’ board faced with ivory wove paper, in original frame

Dimensions

39.2 × 52.1 cm (15 7/16 × 20 9/16 in.); Mount: 55.3 × 73.2 cm (21 13/16 × 28 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Olivia Shaler Swan Memorial Collection

Reference Number

1943.93

Copyright

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

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