(American, 1870-1953)

Impression, 1923, signed and dated lower right "Marin 23", watercolor and charcoal on paper, 17 x 21 in.; fine reproduction gilt wood frame, 27-1/2 x 31-1/8 x 1-3/8 in.

Provenance: Ferdinand Howald Collection; The Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, Columbus, Ohio (label verso); Kennedy Galleries Inc., New York, NY (label verso); Private Collection, Santa Fe, New Mexico; Kennedy Galleries Inc., New York, NY (label verso); Property of the Thalhimer Family, Richmond Virginia

Exhibited: The Arts Club of Chicago, "Watercolors and Pastels of Four Modern American Painters", Chicago, Illinois, Dec. 6, 1939-Dec. 21, 1939, no. 25; Tweed Gallery, University Gallery, University of Minnesota, Duluth, Minnesota, Dec. 1942; Venice Biennale, "XXV Venice Biennale: John Marin", Venice, Italy, Jun. 3, 1950-Oct. 15, 1950, no. 41; American Federation of Arts, "American Federation of Arts Exhibition in France", France, Apr. 1954-Feb. 1955; Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, Pennsylvania, Apr. 1, 1961-Apr. 18, 1961; Cincinnati Art Museum, "John Marin", Cincinnati, Ohio, Feb. 14, 1969-Mar. 16, 1969 (label verso); Fuller Museum of Art "By the Sea: John Marin", Brockton, Massachusetts, Jul. 11, 1992-Sep. 6, 1992 (label verso); Zabriskie Gallery, "Charles Daniel and the Daniel Gallery 1913-1932", New York, NY, Dec. 2, 1993-Feb. 19, 1994, no. 29 (label verso); Kennedy Galleries, "John Marin: Between Realism and Abstraction", New York, NY, Oct. 4, 1997-Nov. 1, 1997, no. 19 (label verso); Eaton Fine Art Inc, "Expression and Meaning: The Marine Paintings of John Marin", West Palm Beach, Florida, Jan. 8, 1999-Feb. 15, 2004 (label verso).

Literature: Arts, Vol. V (1924), p. 69; Marcia Tucker, Edgar P. Richardson, American Paintings in the Ferdinand Howald Collection (1969), pg. 80, no. 135; Sheldon Reich, John Marin: A Stylistic Analysis and Catalogue Raisonne, part II (1970), pg. 521, no. 23.30.; Mahonri Sharp Young, Painters of the Stieglitz Group/Early American Moderns (1974), pp. 42-32; William C. Agee, "John Marin's Originality of Vision and his 'Blessed Equilibrium'", John Marin: Between Realism and Abstraction (1997) no. 19; Sam Hunter, Expression and Meaning: The Marine Paintings of John Marin (1999), pp.14-15.