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Home>Exhibitions>Past>2018>Alfred Stieglitz and John Marin

# Alfred Stieglitz and John Marin

June 1 – December 10, 2018East Building, Ground Level - Gallery 106A

Alfred Stieglitz, *Lake George*, 1922, gelatin silver print, Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1949.3.1104

**This exhibition is no longer on view at the National Gallery.**

 A journalist writing in 1926 described the relationship between the artist John Marin and the photographer and gallery director Alfred Stieglitz as one of “mutual admiration which, expressed by the silent loyalty on the part of the non-communicative Marin, is heralded widely by Mr. Stieglitz, who seems never to feel happier than when praising the genius of Marin.” These collaborators, who worked, as Stieglitz wrote, to prove that “water- color is a major medium in the hands of one like Marin,” met in 1909 and remained steadfast friends until Stieglitz’s death in 1946. Stieglitz first exhibited Marin’s work at his New York gallery 291 in 1910 and showed it almost every year thereafter. He gave him frequent financial support. The two shared subjects as well — especially New York City and the natural world — and frequently drew inspiration from one another’s work.

**About this Series**American Art, 1900–1950: Prints, Drawings, and Photographs**

During a period fueled by enormous urban growth and technological changes, riven by world wars, and rocked by new modes of thought, American artists explored many diverse means to express their changing experience and environment. Prints, drawings, and photographs were vital media through which artists pursued radical experiments in form, figuration, and abstraction. Reevaluating European traditions, they developed new ways of seeing the modern world around them. Complementing the American modernist paintings and sculptures in the adjacent galleries, these rotating installations feature prints, drawings, and photographs by American artists working in the first half of the 20th century. By looking at pairs or groups of artists, or at broader themes such as abstract portraiture or the Machine Age, the installations spark conversations between established and lesser-known figures in American modernism and highlight the era’s full range and complexity.

Alfred Stieglitz and John Marin
John Marin, *Storm over Taos*, 1930, watercolor over graphite, Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1949.2.3

Alfred Stieglitz and John Marin
Alfred Stieglitz, *Lake George*, 1922, gelatin silver print, Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1949.3.480

Alfred Stieglitz and John Marin
John Marin, *Movement No. 9, Sea and Boat, Deer Isle, Maine*, 1927, watercolor and black crayon, Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1949.2.4

Alfred Stieglitz and John Marin
Alfred Stieglitz, *Lake George from the Hill*, 1932, gelatin silver print, Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1949.3.714

Alfred Stieglitz and John Marin
John Marin, *Echo Lake, Franconia Range, White Mountain Country*, 1927, watercolor and charcoal over graphite, Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1949.2.5

Alfred Stieglitz and John Marin
Alfred Stieglitz, *Lake George from the Hill*, 1932, gelatin silver print, Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1949.3.726

Alfred Stieglitz and John Marin
Alfred Stieglitz, *Grass and Frost*, 1934, gelatin silver print, Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1949.3.737

Alfred Stieglitz and John Marin
Alfred Stieglitz, *Grasses*, 1933, gelatin silver print, Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1949.3.738

Alfred Stieglitz and John Marin
John Marin, *Deer Isle, Maine*, 1926, watercolor over graphite on wove paper, Gift of John Marin, Jr., 1986.54.82

Alfred Stieglitz and John Marin
John Marin, Alfred Stieglitz, *Brooklyn Bridge and Lower New York*, 1913, etching in black on wove paper, Gift of Norma B. Marin, 2005.98.150

Alfred Stieglitz and John Marin
Alfred Stieglitz, *Two Towers—New York*, 1911, printed in or before 1913, photogravure on cream moderately thick smooth wove Japanese paper, Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1949.3.326

Alfred Stieglitz and John Marin
John Marin, Alfred Stieglitz, *Woolworth Building (The Dance)*, 1913, etching and drypoint in black on wove paper, Reba and Dave Williams Collection, Florian Carr Fund and Gift of the Print Research Foundation, 2008.115.210

Alfred Stieglitz and John Marin
Alfred Stieglitz, *The Steerage*, 1907, printed in or before 1913, photogravure on cream moderately thick smooth wove Japanese paper, Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1949.3.292

Alfred Stieglitz and John Marin
John Marin, *Woolworth Building, No. 1*, 1913, etching with monoprint inking in black on wove paper, Reba and Dave Williams Collection, Florian Carr Fund and Gift of the Print Research Foundation, 2008.115.211

Alfred Stieglitz and John Marin
Alfred Stieglitz, *Grass and Flagpole*, 1933, gelatin silver print, Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1949.3.736

Alfred Stieglitz and John Marin
Alfred Stieglitz, *Hedge and Grasses—Lake George*, 1933, gelatin silver print, Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1949.3.740

Alfred Stieglitz and John Marin
Alfred Stieglitz, *Little House, Lake George*, probably 1933, gelatin silver print, Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1949.3.745

Alfred Stieglitz and John Marin
Alfred Stieglitz, *Little House, Lake George*, probably 1933, gelatin silver print, Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1949.3.771

Alfred Stieglitz and John Marin
Alfred Stieglitz, *House and Grape Leaves*, 1934, gelatin silver print, Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1949.3.776

Alfred Stieglitz and John Marin
Alfred Stieglitz, *House and Grape Leaves*, 1934, gelatin silver print, Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1949.3.778

Alfred Stieglitz and John Marin
Alfred Stieglitz, *Lake George*, 1922, gelatin silver print, Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1949.3.1104

**Organization:** Organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington

**Passes:** Admission is always free and passes are not required

Alfred Stieglitz and His CircleSeptember 30, 2016–April 11, 2017

Made in America: Radical FiguresApril 12–November 15, 2017

Machine Age ModernismNovember 17, 2017–May 29, 2018

Alfred Stieglitz and John MarinJune 1–December 10, 2018

Diverse Modernisms, 1935-1955December 13, 2018–July 30, 2019

American Surreal: Arshile Gorky and Nathan LernerOngoing from July 31, 2019

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