Live Auction 19846American Art
JOHN MARIN (1870-1953)
Lot 201 Property from the Collection of Mrs. Stanton Armour, Lake Forest, Illinois

JOHN MARIN (1870-1953)

Region Trinity Church, New York City

Closed18 May 2021

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JOHN MARIN (1870-1953)
Region Trinity Church, New York City
signed and dated 'Marin/26-36' (lower right)—signed and dated again and inscribed 'Region/Trinity/Lower Manhattan' (on the reverse)
watercolor, ink and charcoal on paper
25 3⁄8 x 19 3⁄4 in. (64.5 x 50.2 cm.)
Executed in 1936.

The artist.
Estate of the above.
John C. Marin, Jr., New York, son of the artist.
(Probably) Kennedy Galleries, Inc., New York.
(Probably) Acquired by the present owner from the above.

Specialist note


A related work of the same title is in the collection of the Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, Kansas. In both works the artist has written "26-36," indicating his years of interest in this subject as opposed to implying that he worked on each of them for a decade. Ruth Fine writes, "Considerable importance is given in both versions to the linear aspects of the compositions...in [the present work] the line, worked in ink, is more forceful in effect, providing precedents for the calligraphic emphasis in Marin's later work." (National Gallery of Art, John Marin, exhibition catalogue, Washington, D.C., 1990, p. 148)