About this artwork
Marin’s nudes have been described as his response to the nude bathers of European modernists, principally Paul Cézanne, Henri Matisse, and Pablo Picasso. Yet they were also highly personal symbolic fantasies. Marin referred to his nude models as “real angels” and added, almost protectively, “My clotheless ladies are so camouflaged with the landscape or seascape.” In this painted sketchbook sheet, Marin enclosed his female figures in a protective space that he filled with greenery, trees, and other natural symbols.
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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
- Nudes in the Forest
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Origin
- United States
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Date
- 1935–1945
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Medium
- Watercolor and graphite on tan wove paper
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Dimensions
- 140 × 204 mm
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Credit Line
- Restricted gift of Meg and Mark Hausberg in honor of Martha Tedeschi
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Reference Number
- 2010.350
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Copyright
- © 2018 Estate of John Marin / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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