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Title:Delaware Country (recto); Landscape (verso)
Artist:John Marin (American, Rutherford, New Jersey 1870–1953 Cape Split, Maine)
Date:1912
Medium:Watercolor and graphite on paper
Dimensions:13 7/8 × 16 3/4 in. (35.2 × 42.5 cm)
Classification:Drawings
Credit Line:Gift of A. E. Gallatin, 1921
Object Number:21.16a, b
Inscription: Signed and dated (lower right, in graphite): Marin / 12
A. E. Gallatin, New York (possibly by 1916–21; his gift to MMA)
New York. Jacques Seligmann Galleries. "Mr. Albert Gallatin's Loan Exhibition," February 2–12, 1916, no catalogue [possibly this picture].
New York. Bourgeois Galleries. "Exhibition of Paintings and Graphic Art of the A.E. Gallatin Private Collection," January 3–February 2, 1918 [possibly this picture].
Philadelphia Museum of Art. "John Marin: Milestones and Masterpieces in Watercolor," June 1–August 31, 1951, no catalogue (checklist no. 3).
Springfield, Mass. George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum. "John Marin: Milestones and Masterpieces in Watercolor," September 4–20, 1951, no catalogue.
Coral Gables. Art Gallery, University of Miami. "John Marin," October 2–23, 1951, no. 2.
Jacksonville, Fla. State Teachers College. "John Marin: Milestones and Masterpieces in Watercolor," November 4–25, 1951, no catalogue.
Pittsburgh. Pennsylvania College for Women. "John Marin: Milestones and Masterpieces in Watercolor," December 9, 1951–January 9, 1952, no catalogue.
West Palm Beach. Norton Gallery and School of Art. "John Marin: Milestones and Masterpieces in Watercolor," January 23–February 17, 1952, no catalogue.
Oklahoma City. Oklahoma Art Center. "John Marin: Milestones and Masterpieces in Watercolor," March 1–22, 1952, no catalogue.
Grinnell, Iowa. Grinnell College Art Department. "John Marin: Milestones and Masterpieces in Watercolor," April 4–25, 1952, no catalogue.
Rockford, Ill. Rockford Art Association. "John Marin: Milestones and Masterpieces in Watercolor," May 10–31, 1952, no catalogue.
New Haven. Yale University Art Gallery. "Marin Retrospective," January 15–February 23, 1954, no catalogue.
Katonah, N.Y. Katonah Gallery. "John Marin (1870-1953): Etchings and Paintings," January 6–29, 1958, no catalogue (unnumbered checklist attached to exhibition announcement; as "Landscape, Delaware County").
Katonah, N.Y. Katonah Gallery. "Alfred Stieglitz and His Circle," May 9–June 27, 1971, brochure no. 22 (as "Landscape-Delaware County").
Washington, D.C. Corcoran Gallery of Art. "The Delaware Water Gap," July 11–August 31, 1975, unnumbered cat. (p. 21).
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Paintings and Watercolors by John Marin," February 3–March 29, 1981, no catalogue.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "John Marin Watercolors," March 26–August 26, 2012, no catalogue.
Guy Pène du Bois. "An Expression of Individuality: The A. E. Gallatin Collection of Graphic Art." Arts and Decoration 6 (February 1916), p. 171 [possibly this picture].
Helen Appleton Read. "What Is Stirring in the Realm of Art: Drawings at Knoedler and the Bourgeois Gallery." Brooklyn Daily Eagle (January 6, 1918), p. 8, [possibly this picture].
Arts 1 (May 1921), p. 41, ill.
Henry McBride. "News and Reviews of Art: Marin's Watercolors Shown at Daniel's." New York Herald (April 24, 1921), p. 11.
A. E. Gallatin. American Water-Colourists. New York, 1922, p. ix.
Sheldon Reich. John Marin: A Stylistic Analysis and Catalogue Raisonné. Tucson, 1970, vol. 2, p. 366, no. 12.35, ill., calls it "Landscape, Delaware Country".
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, p. 157, calls it "Landscape, Delaware County".
John Marin (American, Rutherford, New Jersey 1870–1953 Cape Split, Maine)
1913
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