The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of May 10, 2024
West Point, near Small Point, Maine -- Spring
1914
(American, 1870–1953)
Image and Sheet: 41.3 x 36 cm (16 1/4 x 14 3/16 in.)
© Estate of John Marin / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Location: not on view
Did You Know?
John Marin returned repeatedly to the site in Maine where he made this watercolor, each time portraying through color, paint handling, perspective, and movement his spontaneous experience of the place.Description
One of America’s most important watercolorists, John Marin repeatedly challenged accepted ideas about what the medium could do, taking an improvisational approach to color, paint handling, perspective, and movement. This watercolor was made during Marin’s first summer in Maine, 1914, a place that would become central to his watercolor practice for years to come. Marin often returned to the same spot repeatedly, making watercolors each time in response to the light and weather of the moment. West Point near Small Point Maine, Spring is one of three watercolors in the CMA's collection made at the same spot (see 2020.138 and 2020.139). This watercolor shows Marin's responsiveness to the season and vegetation of spring expressed through color and other hallmarks of his style, chiefly his great variety of marks, from bold dashes to transparent washes.- Mr. and Mrs. Joseph P. Keithley, Cleveland, OHMarch 2, 2020the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Impressionism to Modernism: The Keithley Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 11, 2022-January 8, 2023).
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Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2020.136