About this artwork
Looking west down Wall Street, Trinity Church’s purple facade and spire appear beyond the columned Federal Hall. Marin made these landmarks identifiable, adding color over his graphite sketch with broad but carefully applied strokes. He used a heavy blue pigment that settled into the low points of the paper’s surface and lightly blotted the wet blue wash at upper left, removing just enough color from the high points to accentuate the grainy pattern left behind. At lower left, he used more water, rewetting and then blotting his colors to approximate the obliterating effect of steam emanating from street vents. Using a soft, dark pencil, he outlined the structures and delineated architectural details, adding heads and shoulders to blue dabs of wash to transform them into figures.
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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
- Street Scene
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Place
- United States (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- Made 1910
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Medium
- Watercolor with rewetting and blotting, and graphite, on lightweight, slightly textured, off-white wove paper, laid down on ivory wove card
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Inscriptions
- Signed lower right on primary supprt, in graphite, “Marin”; inscribed lower right on secondary support, in graphite, “14” [encircled]
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Dimensions
- 25.9 × 19.9 cm (10 1/4 × 7 7/8 in.); Secondary support: 33.7 × 27 cm (13 5/16 × 10 11/16 in.)
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Credit Line
- Alfred Stieglitz Collection
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Reference Number
- 1956.369
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Copyright
- © 2018 Estate of John Marin / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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