New York with View of the Flatiron Building

Prints and Drawings

1910

John Marin
American, 1870-1953

This lively work painted over a graphite sketch is a view looking down Broadway to the Flatiron Building at the corner of Twenty-Third Street and Fifth Avenue. The tall, narrow structure, seven blocks from Stieglitz’s gallery 291, was also the subject of photographs by Marin’s friends Stieglitz and Edward Steichen. This sheet demonstrates Marin’s increasingly fluid handling of paint, particularly where he pulled his brush, loaded with blue wash, around the tops of the buildings. Tilting the paper upright, he allowed the watercolor to pool at the end of each stroke, creating a vibrant pattern of gradating tone.

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Artist: John Marin
Title: New York with View of the Flatiron Building
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 graphite on lightweight, smooth, cream wove paper, discolored to tan, laid down on white wove card (top and lower edges trimmed)
Inscriptions: Signed lower right, in graphite: “Marin”
Dimensions: 33.9 × 25.4 cm (13 3/8 × 10 in.)
Credit Line: Alfred Stieglitz Collection
Reference Number: 1956.372
Copyright: © 2018 Estate of John Marin / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Sheldon Reich, John Marin: A Stylistic Analysis and Catalogue Raisonné (Tucson, 1970), p. 342, no. 10.16 (ill.).

Art Institute of Chicago, “John Marin’s Watercolors: A Medium for Modernism,” Jan. 19-Apr. 17, 2011, pp. 42, 45-46, 100-101, fig. 27, pl. 27; traveled to the High Museum, Atlanta, June 26-Sept. 11, 2011.

Alfred Stieglitz (1864–1946), New York; Stieglitz Estate (Georgia O’Keeffe (1887–1986), executor); given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1956.

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