Pine Tree
Brooklyn Museum photograph
Object Label
A devoted modernist, landscape painter, and watercolorist, John Marin created compositions of partial forms—the essential elements of a view—using a rough charcoal sketch and passages of directionally applied watercolor washes that together suggest light and movement. He routinely allowed substantial areas of the paper support to remain unpainted—a technique that was usually less successful in his oils, in which he left areas of unpainted canvas exposed.
Caption
John Marin American, 1870–1953. Pine Tree, 1917. Watercolor and charcoal on cream, thick, rough textured wove paper, Sheet: 19 3/8 x 16 3/8 in. (49.2 x 41.6 cm) Frame: 30 x 24 x 1 1/2 in. (76.2 x 61 x 3.8 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Milton Lowenthal, 70.147. © artist or artist's estate (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 70.147_PS2.jpg)
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Artist
Title
Pine Tree
Date
1917
Medium
Watercolor and charcoal on cream, thick, rough textured wove paper
Classification
Dimensions
Sheet: 19 3/8 x 16 3/8 in. (49.2 x 41.6 cm) Frame: 30 x 24 x 1 1/2 in. (76.2 x 61 x 3.8 cm)
Signatures
Signed lower left: "Marin 17"
Credit Line
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Milton Lowenthal
Accession Number
70.147
Rights
© artist or artist's estate
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