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Woolworth from the River
John Marin1917
- Attribution
- John Marin (American, 1870-1953) published by Alfred Stieglitz (American, 1864-1946)
- Medium
- Etching with drypoint, selectively wiped, on ivory Japanese paper
- Physical 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.)
- Credit line
- Alfred Stieglitz Collection
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Source rights statement: © 2018 Estate of John Marin / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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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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