John Marin (American, 1870-1953)
published by Alfred Stieglitz (American, 1864-1946)
Woolworth from the River
INV-6698
John Marin (American, 1870-1953)
published by Alfred Stieglitz (American, 1864-1946)1917
Woolworth from the River
John Marin (American, 1870-1953) published by Alfred Stieglitz (American, 1864-1946) →etchingprint
Date
1917
Medium
Etching with drypoint, selectively wiped, on ivory Japanese paper
Dimensions
Plate: 28.2 × 22.7 cm (11 1/8 × 8 15/16 in.); Sheet: 43.8 × 33.3 cm (17 1/4 × 13 1/8 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 <a href="https://www.artic.edu/artworks/2942>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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