John Marin
American, 1870-1953
Sketch of Lower Manhattan
INV-2942
John Marin
American, 1870-1953c. 1917
Sketch of Lower Manhattan
John Marin American, 1870-1953 →graphitedrawings (visual works)
Date
c. 1917
Medium
Graphite on lightweight, smooth, cream wove paper, laid down on white wove card
Dimensions
Primary support: 33.6 × 24.9 cm (13 1/4 × 9 13/16 in.); Secondary support: 38.4 × 28.5 cm (15 1/8 × 11 1/4 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Alfred Stieglitz Collection
A few years after the completion of the Woolworth Building and Marin’s initial etchings of it, the artist made a number of elegant, abstracted drawings and further etchings, including the drypoint-enhanced Woolworth from the River and the graphite Sketch of Lower Manhattan, in which he used line sparingly to study the force of the skyscraper in its purest, most distilled form.
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