Brooklyn Bridge and Lower New York; II/II

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Brooklyn Bridge and Lower New York; II/II

Artist John Marin (American, 1870-1953)

Publisher Alfred Stieglitz (American, 1864-1946)

Place of Origin291, New York City

Date1913

Dimensionssheet: 13 3/8 x 15 1/4 in. (340 x 387mm)
image: 6 3/4 x 8 3/4 in. (170 x 224 mm)

Mediumetching and drypoint on lightweight, ivory wove paper

ClassificationPrints

Credit LineMr. and Mrs. Kenneth Lay American Art Fund and Frederick B. and Kate L. Shoemaker Fund

Object number

2002.21

Not on View

DescriptionOne etching with drypoint on lightweight, ivory wove paper with full margins; signed, titled, and dated in the plate, l.l.; signed in pencil by the artist below the image "John Marin", l.r.; dealer's note in pencil "Printed by John Marin½Sent out by 291" l.l. of sheet. No watermark on paper. One etching with drypoint on lightweight, ivory wove paper with full margins; signed, titled, and dated in the plate, l.l.; signed in pencil by the artist below the image "John Marin", l.r.; dealer's note in pencil "Printed by John Marin½Sent out by 291" l.l. of sheet. No watermark on paper.

Published ReferencesToledo Museum of Art, Toledo Museum of Art Masterworks, Toledo, 2009, p. 294, repr. (col.).

Gillespie, Sarah Kate, Icon of Modernism: Representing the Brooklyn Bridge, 1883-1950,Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, cat. no. 23, p.64, repr. (col.) p. 115.

Exhibition HistoryToledo, Toledo Museum of Art, Above Water: Bridges from the Collection, July 20 - Oct. 21, 2007.

Toledo, Toledo Museum of Art, George Bellows and New York, 1900-1930, Feb. 14 - Apr. 21, 2013 (gallery 18, University of Michigan student show).

Toledo, Toledo Museum of Art, Looks Good on Paper: Masterworks and Favorites, Oct. 10, 2014-Jan. 11, 2015.

Toledo, Toledo Museum of Art, The City, November 6, 2015-February 14, 2016.

Athens, Georgia Museum of Art, The University of Georgia, Icon of Modernism: Representing the Brooklyn Bridge, 1883-1950, September 17-December 11, 2016.

Comparative ReferencesSee also Ruth E. Fine, John Marin (Washington: National Gallery of Art, 1990): 45-7.

See also Elizabeth Hutton Turner, In the American Grain: Arthur Dove, Marsden Hartley, John Marin, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Alfred Stieglitz, Washington, D.C., 1995.

See also John Marin, The Selected Writings of John Marin, New York, 1949.

See also Museum of Modern Art, John Marin: Watercolors, Oil Paintings, Etchings, New York, 1936.

See also Hilton Kramer, "Critic's Notebook: A Marin Miscellany," Art & Antiques, vol. 7, May 1990, pp. 147-9.

See also Allison Eckardt Ledes, "John Marin and the Advent of Modernism," Magazine Antiques, vol. 137, January 1990, pp. 48+

See also Cleve Gray, " John Marin: the Etched Line," Artist's Proof, vol. 9, 1969, pp. 78-86.

See also J. T. Butler, "John Marin: Etchings...," Connoisseur, vol. 172, December 1969, pp. 308-9.

See also Carl Zigrosser, The Complete Etchings of John Marin, Philadelphia, 1969, p. 106.