About this artwork
This unusually somber watercolor must have been painted indoors on a dark day or possibly at nightfall, when the sea appeared almost black. Marin captured this view from the glass porch of the Cape Split house at high tide, when the large triangular rock known as the tide marker was barely visible; the tip of a coastal ledge juts into the picture at the left. The artist here used directional wiping, blending in opaque watercolor. Movement and brightness were introduced by scraping away pigment to reveal the white paper, conjuring the breaking surf playing about the submerged rocks.
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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
- Sea, Green and Brown, Maine
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Place
- United States (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- 1937
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Medium
- Watercolor with wiping and scraping, and with opaque watercolor, over graphite, on medium-weight (estimated), moderately textured, ivory wove paper (all edges trimmed), laid down on wood-pulp board faced with ivory wove (estimated) paper, gilt with silver leaf, and backed with dark red wove paper, in original frame
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Inscriptions
- Signed and dated lower right corner, in watercolor over graphite: ”Marin 37”
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Dimensions
- Sheet: 38.7 × 53.4 cm (15 1/4 × 21 1/16 in.); Secondary support: 42.7 × 56.6 cm (16 13/16 × 22 5/16 in.); Mount: 50.3 × 64.3 cm (19 13/16 × 25 3/8 in.)
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Credit Line
- Alfred Stieglitz Collection
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Reference Number
- 1949.571
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Copyright
- © 2018 Estate of John Marin / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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