Sketch of Lower Manhattan

Prints and Drawings

c. 1917

John Marin
American, 1870-1953

A few years after the completion of the Woolworth Building and Marin’s initial etchings of it, the artist made a number of elegant, abstracted drawings and further etchings, including the drypoint-enhanced Woolworth from the River and the graphite Sketch of Lower Manhattan, in which he used line sparingly to study the force of the skyscraper in its purest, most distilled form.

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Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: John Marin
Title: Sketch of Lower Manhattan
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.: 1915–1919
Medium: Graphite on lightweight, smooth, cream wove paper, laid down on white wove card
Inscriptions: Signed lower right, in graphite: "Marin"
Dimensions: Primary support: 33.6 × 24.9 cm (13 1/4 × 9 13/16 in.); Secondary support: 38.4 × 28.5 cm (15 1/8 × 11 1/4 in.)
Credit Line: Alfred Stieglitz Collection
Reference Number: 1956.388
Copyright: © 2018 Estate of John Marin / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

John B. Reinhardt, “Art Beat: John Marin’s Watercolors: A Medium for Modernism,” Chicago Critic (blog), March 13, 2011, accessed May 2, 2011, http://chicagocritic.com/john-marin%E2%80%99s-watercolors-a-medium-for-modernism/ (not repro).

Art Institute of Chicago, “John Marin’s Watercolors: A Medium for Modernism,” Jan. 19-Apr. 17, 2011, pp. 119, 122, pl. 46; 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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