John Marin autograph manuscript
name: label: Creator
content: Marin, John, 1870-1953
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Donated 2011 by Peter S. Michaels who purchased the manuscript from a bookseller.
creator: label: Creator
content: Marin, John, 1870-1953
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: John Marin (1870-1953) was a painter, engraver, and watercolorist in Paris, France and Cliffside, N.J.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Item
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1948
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.marijohn3
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
bibliography: label: Bibliography
content: John Marin / MacKinley Helm. Boston: Pellegrini & Cudahy in assn. with the Institute of Contemporary Art, 1948.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Four page autograph manuscript draft enclosed in a hardback folio. Written in free verse by John Marin for the foreword to the monograph John Marin by MacKinley Helm. Marin muses on the subject of health and refers to himself repeatedly as "this critter myself."