About the Artwork
Circus Forms
1934
John Marin
1870 - 1953
American
Unknown
Oil on canvas
Unframed: 29 × 36 1/4 inches (73.7 × 92.1 cm)
Paintings
American Art before 1950
Gift of Robert H. Tannahill
69.307
© 2005 Estate of John Marin / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Markings
Signed and dated, lower right: Marin 34
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Provenance
1934, An American Place
1935, The Downtown Gallery
1935-1969, Robert H. Tannahill (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
1969-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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John Marin. Exh. cat., An American Place. New York, 1934, no. 22.
American Magazine of Art 28 (1935): p. 669 (ill.).
Benson, E.M. John Marin: The Man and his Work. Washington, D.C., 1935, p. 96, no. 48 (ill.).
John Marin: Watercolors, Oil Paintings, Etchings. Exh. cat., Museum of Modern Art. New York, 1936, pp. 33-34, no. 178 (ill.).
Helm, MacKinley. John Marin. Boston, 1948, p. 72 (pl. H).
John Marin: Stylistic Analysis and Catalogue Raisonne. Tucson, 1970, Vol. 1, p. 230; Vol. 2, p. 34 (ill.).
Fine, Ruth. John Marin. Exh. cat., National Gallery of Art. Washington, D.C., 1990, pp. 256-258.
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© 2005 Estate of John Marin / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
John Marin, Circus Forms, 1934, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Robert H. Tannahill, 69.307.
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