About This Artwork

John Marin
American, 1870-1953

Movement: Boats and Objects, Blue Gray Sea, 1947

Oil on canvas
73.7 x 92.1 cm (29 x 36 1/4 in.)
s.l.r. Marin '47
Alfred Stieglitz Collection; Robert A. Waller Fund, 1949.610

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Art Institute of Chicago, "John Marin's Watercolors: A Medium for Modernism," January 23-April 17, 2011; travelled to Atlanta, High Museum, June 26-September 11, 2011.

Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art, John Marin in Retrospect, March 3–April 15, 1962, cat. 21; traveled to Manchester, New Hampshire, Currier Gallery of Art, May 9–June 20.

New York, An American Place, "John Marin," December 8, 1947-January 31, 1948, no. 8.

Publication History

Judith A. Barter et al., "American Modernism at the Art Institute of Chicago, From World War I to 1955," (Art Institute of Chicago/Yale University Press, 2009), cat. 119.
Das Werke 35 (August, 1948), p. 267 (ill.).

MacKinley Helm, John Marin (Boston, 1948), p. 245 as "Movement in Paint" (ill).

New York Times (December 14, 1947), p. 10 (ill.).