Inscription: Signed and dated (lower right): Marin 36
the artist (1936–49; in 1949 to his son); John C. Marin Jr. (1949; in exchange for 54 framed Marin works, his gift with two other works, as part of the Alfred Stieglitz collection, to MMA)
New York. An American Place. "John Marin: New Watercolors, Oils and Drawings," January 5–February 3, 1937, no catalogue (checklist no. 26; as "Black Stallion").
New York. An American Place. "John Marin Exhibition," March 21–April 12, 1942, no catalogue (checklist no. 15).
Boston. Institute of Modern Art. "John Marin: A Retrospective Exhibition," January 7–February 15, 1947, no. 3.
Washington, D. C. Phillips Memorial Gallery. "John Marin: A Retrospective Exhibition," March 2–April 15, 1947, no. 3.
Minneapolis. Walker Art Center. "John Marin: A Retrospective Exhibition," May 1–June 15, 1947, no. 3.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. "John Marin Memorial Exhibition," March 1–April 17, 1955, no. 8 (ptg).
Washington, D. C. Phillips Gallery. "John Marin Memorial Exhibition," May 15–June 30, 1955, no. 8 (ptg).
San Francisco Museum of Art. "John Marin Memorial Exhibition," July 19–September 11, 1955, no. 8 (ptg).
University of California, Los Angeles. "John Marin Memorial Exhibition," September 28–November 9, 1955, no. 8 (ptg).
Cleveland Museum of Art. "John Marin Memorial Exhibition," November 17, 1955–January 1, 1956, no. 8 (ptg).
Minneapolis Institute of Arts. "John Marin Memorial Exhibition," February 3–March 20, 1956, no. 8 (ptg).
Palm Beach. Society of the Four Arts. "John Marin Memorial Exhibition," March 9–20, 1956 (part 1, drawings, etchings and watercolors); March 23–April 1, 1956 (part 2, oils), no. 8 (ptg).
University of Georgia, Athens. "John Marin Memorial Exhibition," May 1956, no. 8 (ptg).
New York. Whitney Museum of American Art. "John Marin Memorial Exhibition," June 13–July 29, 1956, no. 8 (ptg).
London. Arts Council Gallery. "John Marin: Paintings, Watercolours, Drawings, and Etchings: An Exhibition," September 22–October 20, 1956, no. 8.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Fourteen American Masters: Paintings from Colonial Times to Today," October 16, 1958–January 4, 1959, no catalogue.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Three Centuries of American Painting," April 9–October 17, 1965, unnum. checklist.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "American Paintings, Drawings and Watercolors from the Museum's Collections," October 1–December 7, 1969, no catalogue.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Paintings and Watercolors by John Marin," February 3–March 29, 1981, no catalogue.
Roslyn Harbor, N. Y. Nassau County Museum of Art. "Town and Country: In Pursuit of Life's Pleasures," May 12–August 11, 1996, unnumbered cat. (p. 22).
Roslyn Harbor, N.Y. Nassau County Museum of Art. "Art and Entertainment," November 18, 2007–February 3, 2008, no catalogue.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Stieglitz and His Artists: Matisse to O'Keeffe," October 13, 2011–January 2, 2012, no. 172.
Little Rock. Arkansas Arts Center. "Becoming John Marin: Modernist at Work," January 26–April 22, 2018, not in catalogue.
Ralph Flint. "John Marin Blazes New Trails." New York Sun (January 16, 1937), p. 31, ill.
Heinrich Riegner. "John Marin." Das Werk 35 (August 1938), p. 265, ill.
MacKinley Helm. John Marin. Boston, 1948, pp. 74, 209, pl. 44.
Charlotte Devree. "Clowns, Sawdust—and Art." New York Times (March 27, 1955), p. SM28, ill.
Henry Geldzahler. American Painting in the Twentieth Century. New York, 1965, pp. 66–67, ill.
Sheldon Reich. John Marin: A Stylistic Analysis and Catalogue Raisonné. Tucson, 1970, vol. 1, p. 214, fig. 193, vol. 2, p. 677, fig. 36.8.
Hilton Kramer. "Art View: A Dash of Marin at The Met." New York Times (March 1, 1981), pp. D1, D27.
Jessica Murphy inStieglitz and His Artists: Matisse to O'Keeffe. The Alfred Stieglitz Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Ed. Lisa Mintz Messinger. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 2011, pp. 189, 276, no. 172, ill. (color).
John Marin (American, Rutherford, New Jersey 1870–1953 Cape Split, Maine)
1913
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