JOHN MARIN (1870-1953)

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)