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The Split-Up: The Beginning of a New Art in America

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Artist(s): John Marin (Rutherford, NJ, Dec 23, 1870 - Oct 1, 1953, Cape Split, ME)
Title: Blue Sea, Crotch Island
Date: 1923
Dimensions: 17 3/16 in. x 20 1/2 in. (43.66 cm x 52.07 cm)
Medium: watercolor on wove paper
Credit Line: Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA, museum purchase, 1935.46

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Exhibitions: Currents/Crosscurrents

Exhibition History

This object was included in the following exhibitions:

Water Colors by Contemporary Americans, Addison Gallery of American Art, 5/22/1935 - 6/25/1935
Design in Painting and Sculpture, Addison Gallery of American Art, 1/5/1938 - 2/13/1938
Exhibition of the State of Maine, Colby College Museum of Art, 4/22/1944 - 5/26/1944
American Watercolor and Winslow Homer, Walker Art Center, 2/27/1945 - 8/19/1945
Seven by Six, Wadsworth Atheneum, 10/27/1948 - 11/28/1948
Amerika Schildert [America Paints], Stedelijk Museum, 6/16/1950 - 9/10/1950
Opening Exhibition of the Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham Museum of Art, 4/8/1951 - 6/3/1951
John Marin, University of Miami Art Gallery, 10/2/1951 - 10/23/1951
John Marin: Watercolors, Oils, Prints, and Drawings, Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute Museum of Art, 12/2/1951 - 12/30/1951
American Painting and Sculpture Exhibition, International Student Center, 3/25/1952 - 6/9/1952
John Marin Retrospective Exhibition, Yale University Art Gallery, 1/15/1954 - 2/22/1954
Watercolors Selected from the Collection of the Addison Gallery of American Art, The Corning Museum of Glass, 4/5/1954 - 4/26/1954
Modern French and American Painting, 1920-1940, Wildenstein and Co., Inc., 5/4/1955 - 5/28/1955
Scope in Collecting [25th Anniversary Exhibition], Addison Gallery of American Art, 10/19/1956 - 12/24/1956
Loan to accompany Film Festival, Robert Hull Fleming Museum, University of Vermont, 4/2/1959 - 4/22/1959
Living with Design, Addison Gallery of American Art, 10/22/1959 - 10/23/1959
Swain School of Design Summer Exhibition, Crapo Gallery, Swain School of Art, 8/4/1963 - 8/11/1963
Marsden Hartley, John Marin, La Jolla Museum of Art, 2/12/1966 - 3/27/1966
Roots and Promise of American Art, Addison Gallery of American Art, 1/10/1967 - 3/13/1967
New England Art from New England Museums, Brockton Art Museum, Fuller Memorial, 1/15/1969 - 3/2/1969
The Works, Addison Gallery of American Art, 11/7/1969 - 2/22/1970
The Drama of the Sea, The Heckscher Museum of Art, 5/11/1975 - 6/15/1975
The Split-Up: The Beginning of a New Art in America, Addison Gallery of American Art, 3/13/1981 - 4/12/1981
Masterworks from the Collection: 50th Anniversary Exhibition, Addison Gallery of American Art, 5/9/1981 - 6/14/1981
Landscapes from the Permanent Collection, Addison Gallery of American Art, 4/1/1983 - 5/1/1983
Point of View: Landscapes from the Addison Collection, Addison Gallery of American Art, 10/16/1992 - 12/20/1992
Parallel Perspectives: Early Twentieth Century American Art, Addison Gallery of American Art, 11/16/1999 - 5/1/2000
The American Land: Selections from the Addison Collection, Addison Gallery of American Art, 1/19/2001 - 4/8/2001
Working from Nature, Addison Gallery of American Art, 9/19/2003 - 1/4/2004
Nature Study, Addison Gallery of American Art, 3/3/2006 - 4/9/2006
Natural Selections, Addison Gallery of American Art, 9/14/2013 - 3/16/2014
Currents/Crosscurrents: American Art, 1850–1950, Addison Gallery of American Art, 10/16/2020 - 3/7/2021

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