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Pine Tree

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.


• Artist: John Marin, American, 1870-1953
• Medium: Watercolor and charcoal on cream, thick, rough textured wove paper
• Dates: 1917
• 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)
• Signature: Signed lower left: "Marin 17"
• Collections: American Art
• Museum Location: This item is not on view
• Accession Number: 70.147
• Credit Line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Milton Lowenthal
• Image: Overall, 70.147_PS2.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph, 2005
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 (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 70.147_PS2.jpg)
• Catalogue Description: There is a faint charcoal sketch on verso.