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Crotch Island, Maine, The Cove

(American, 1870–1953)
1924
Medium/TechniqueWatercolor, black crayon, and a pointed tool (brush handle?) on paper
DimensionsSheet: 36.5 × 43.8 cm (14 3/8 × 17 1/4 in.)
Framed: 57.2 × 69.5 cm (22 1/2 × 27 3/8 in.)
Credit LineThe Hayden Collection—Charles Henry Hayden Fund
Accession number61.1140
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsWatercolors
InscriptionsIn blue watercolor and black crayon, l.r.: Marin '24; verso, in graphite: Crotch Island Maine/ 1924/ The Cove; in graphite, verso of original silver mat: Crotch Island Maine/ The Cove-1924
ProvenanceDowntown Gallery, New York, NY; purchased by MFA, November 8, 1961.
Copyright© 2011 Estate of John Marin / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
Vessel (ping)
Late 5th–Early 4th millennium B.C
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1930
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