About this artwork
Marin’s interest in internal framing devices became increasingly significant in his watercolors of the 1920s. This large sheet, much admired and exhibited during the artist’s lifetime, captures the waterfront through a window on the Weehawken Ferry. Marin painted the upper edge to resemble a rolled canvas window covering, employing a playful trompe l’oeil manner. Equally improvisational is the artist’s inclusion of a pink mountain range beyond the New York skyline, which equates nature’s grand peaks and valleys with the soaring towers and narrow canyons of the urban landscape.
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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
- West Forty-Second Street from Ferryboat
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Place
- United States (Artist's nationality)
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Date
- 1929
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Medium
- Watercolor with wiping, blotting, and scraping, and with black colored pencil, black crayon, and graphite, on moderately thick (estimated), slightly textured, ivory wove paper (all edges trimmed) perimeter mounted to wood-pulp board faced with cream wove paper, in original frame
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Inscriptions
- Signed and dated lower right, in blue watercolor, over graphite: “Marin 29”
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Dimensions
- 54.9 × 66.3 cm (21 5/8 × 26 1/8 in.); Secondary support: 58.3 × 75.3 cm (23 × 29 11/16 in.)
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Credit Line
- Alfred Stieglitz Collection
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Reference Number
- 1949.568
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Copyright
- © 2018 Estate of John Marin / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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