Artwork Details
Artist
Creation Date
Materials
Object Types
Dimensions
25 x 30 in. 30 x 35-1/4 x 2-1/4 in. (framed)
Mark Description
l.r. Marin 44
Accession Number
Credit Line
Bequest of Mrs. James W. Fesler
Copyright
Collection
American Painting and Sculpture 1800-1945
Color Palette
Provenance
The artist; Alfred Stieglitz and An American Place; Mrs. Caroline Marmon Fesler purchased the piece in 1944; given to the John Herron Art Institute, Indianapolis, Indiana, now the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, in 1961.
Gallery Labels
- Patches of raw canvas, daubs of thick paint, and frenzied brushwork convey the turbulence of the stormy sea.
- Marin executed Hurricane at his summer home on the coast of Maine, but his sense of wind, water, and clouds is not tied to a specific locale.
- Marin’s avant-garde style was encouraged by the famous New York art dealer Alfred Stieglitz. When Mrs. Fesler of Indianapolis purchased Hurricane, Stieglitz wrote congratulating her on the acquisition: “The Hurricane is certainly a masterpiece. Everyone agrees with everyone else as to that.”
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