Weehawken, No. 1

Prints and Drawings

1915

John Marin
American, 1870-1953

John Marin created his first significant etchings during his crucial years of study in Paris, but these prints owed more to his fellow American James Abbott McNeil Whistler than to the early forms of Cubism. Weehawken No. I however, demonstrates the impact of the artist’s observation of Cubism in Paris on his mature style.

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: John Marin
Title: Weehawken, No. 1
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 1915
Medium: Etching with graphite additions on ivory wove paper
Inscriptions: Signed, recto, lower right, in graphite: "John Marin"; signed, lower left, in the plate: "Marin 15"; inscribed, recto,bottom left, in graphite: "only 2 printed (1921)"; verso, in graphite, bottom left: "Stieglitz"; bottom center: "Grain Elevators - Weehawken/ only 2 printed 1921"
Dimensions: Plate: 23.1 × 28.7 cm (9 1/8 × 11 5/16 in.); Sheet: 24.2 × 29.2 cm (9 9/16 × 11 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Alfred Stieglitz Collection
Reference Number: 1949.905
Copyright: © 2018 Estate of John Marin / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Art Institute of Chicago, “American Prints 1900-1960: Recent Gifts to the Permanent Collection,” July 3-Oct. 31, 1992.
Art Institute of Chicago, “John Marin’s Watercolors: A Medium for Modernism,” Jan. 19-Apr. 17, 2011, pp. 120, 122, pl. 48; 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, 1949.

Zigrosser 123 I/I (trial proof)

Benson 113 trial proof

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