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John Marin "Clock Tower of Santa Maria Zobenigo, Venice, Italy" Original Pencil Signed Etching c.1907
Rare pencil signed etching by …
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John Marin "Clock Tower of Santa Maria Zobenigo, Venice, Italy" Original Pencil Signed Etching c.1907
Rare pencil signed etching by listed American artist John Marin (1870-1953)
Plate dimensions 5.5" wide x 8" high
The frame measures 11.5" wide x 15" high
Pencil signed lower right
John Marin was born in Rutherford, New Jersey in 1870. As a child of seven or eight Marin began to sketch and when he was a teenager he had completed his earliest watercolors. His education in the schools of New Jersey was interspersed with summers of hunting, fishing and sketching; he traveled in the Catskills, and as far away as Wisconsin and Minnesota. But formal training was almost incidental to his development as an artist.
Marin established himself as a practicing architect. In the early 1890s, he worked for four architects and by 1893 had designed six houses in Union Hill, New Jersey. At the age of twenty-eight, he decided to become a professional artist and studied briefly at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia and the Art Students League in New York City.
From 1905 to 1910 he worked in Europe, where he was influenced by Whistler's watercolors. It was Alfred Stieglitz, Marin's lifetime friend and dealer, whose firm faith in his genius made his position in the art world possible. He developed a distinctive style that he used most characteristically in powerful watercolors of the Maine coast. During the 1920s he provided the dominant force in the movement away from naturalistic representation towards an art of expressive semi-abstraction.
Santa Maria Zobenigo; The church, whose name translates into St. Mary of the Lily referring to the flower classically depicted as being presented by the Angel Gabriel during the Annunciation, is more commonly known as Santa Maria Zobenigo after the Jubanico family who founded it in the 9th century. The edifice is situated on the Campo Santa Maria Zobenigo, west of the Piazza San Marco. It was rebuilt by Giuseppe Sardi for Admiral Antonio Barbaro between 1678 and 1681 and has one of the finest Venetian Baroque facades in all of Venice. The church is now part of the parish of San Moisè.
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- Dimensions
- 11.5ʺW × 1ʺD × 15ʺH
- Styles
- American
- Frame Type
- Framed
- Art Subjects
- Cityscape
- Architecture
- Period
- Early 20th Century
- Item Type
- Vintage, Antique or Pre-owned
- Materials
- Etching
- Condition
- Good Condition, Original Condition Unaltered, Some Imperfections
- Color
- Black
- Condition Notes
- Lightly used frame Lightly used frame less
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