About this artwork
This work is noteworthy because it combines recognizable architectural elements (Wall Street and the Stock Exchange) with playful compositional devices, including the enclosure of pedestrians into a box, one of the “movements” of the work’s title. This isolation of a vignette into a square or lozenge-shaped frame became an important approach for Marin, helping him to draw attention to the art as a tangible surface rather than a window onto visible reality; as he put it, “You must be made to see that artist’s scene and not nature’s scene.”
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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
- Downtown New York, Three Movements
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Place
- United States (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- Made 1925
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Medium
- Etching with retroussage, selectively wiped, on white wove paper
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Inscriptions
- Signed, recto, lower left, in graphite: "John Marin"; signed, lower right, in the plate: "Marin/25"; inscribed, bottom left, in graphite: "Printed by John Marin/ Sent out by 291"
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Dimensions
- Plate: 21 × 16.2 cm (8 5/16 × 6 7/16 in.); Sheet: 39.1 × 29 cm (15 7/16 × 11 7/16 in.)
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Credit Line
- Alfred Stieglitz Collection
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Reference Number
- 1949.914
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Copyright
- © 2018 Estate of John Marin / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Extended information about this artwork
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