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J. Mather, \"American paintings at Princeton University,\" Record of the Museum of Historic Art, Princeton University 2, no. 2 (1943): p. 2-15.","citation":"F. J. Mather, \"American paintings at Princeton University,\" Record of the Museum of Historic Art, Princeton University 2, no. 2 (1943): p. 2-15., p. 14-15","date":1943,"id":3193,"uri":"https://www.jstor.org/stable/3774197"},{"boilertext":"Sheldon Reich, John Marin: a stylistic analysis and catalogue raisonné, (Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 1970).","citation":"Sheldon Reich, John Marin: a stylistic analysis and catalogue raisonné, (Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 1970)., Vol. 2: p. 517, no. 23.8 (illus.) [as Boat and Sea, Maine or Lobster Smack Passing Through]","date":1970,"id":5910,"uri":"https://search.worldcat.org/title/77283"},{"boilertext":"Recent water colors by John Marin: consisting of scenes painted in the region about Stonington, Deer Isle, Maine, in 1923, and several painted in 1922-23 in New York and the Palisades on the Hudson : February 16th to March 8th, 1924, (New York: Montross Gallery, 1924).","citation":"Recent water colors by John Marin: consisting of scenes painted in the region about Stonington, Deer Isle, Maine, in 1923, and several painted in 1922-23 in New York and the Palisades on the Hudson : February 16th to March 8th, 1924, (New York: Montross Gallery, 1924).","date":1924,"id":5911,"uri":"https://search.worldcat.org/title/54258818"}],"nowebuse":"False","periods":[],"department":"Prints and Drawings","attribute_groups":[{"id":2199325,"term":"North American Art","termtype":"Collecting Area"},{"id":2199327,"term":"Prints and Drawings","termtype":"Collecting Area"}],"daterange":"A.D. 1900-1945","dateend":1923,"depicted":[],"titles":[{"title":"Lobster Smack Passing Through","titletype":"Published","displayorder":1}],"hasimage":"true","creditlinerepro":null,"objectnumber":"x1941-157","inscribed":"in graphite, on verso across center: No 1 [crossed out] Lobster Smack | Passing Through","texts":[{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Provenance","textentryhtml":"Montross Gallery, New York; The Intimate Gallery, New York; Frank Jewett Mather Jr.","remarks":null},{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Gallery Label","textentryhtml":"\r\nFrom 1914 until his death, Marin spent long periods living and painting in Maine, which he described as \"one fierce, relentless, cruel, beautiful, fascinating, hellish, and all other ish’es, place.\" In this forcefully abstract and direct watercolor, he captures his impressions of a wave-tossed fishing boat off the rocky coast of Stonington and Deer Isle, where he spent the summer of 1923 producing hundreds of watercolors. Working quickly, Marin employed a battery of marks—ranging from broadly brushed patches of color to tottering jagged black lines—to create the feeling of movement and countermovement in the churning ocean. The triangular yellow channel marker on the right indicates that the lobster boat is leaving the harbor and heading to sea.","remarks":"Painting on Paper: American Watercolors at Princeton"}],"datebegin":1923,"sortnumber":"1941 157x","published_date":"2026-02-11 07:29:39.567551","objectid":3643,"dimensions":"34 × 42.5 cm (13 3/8 × 16 3/4 in.)\r\nframe: 57 × 65.5 × 2.8 cm (22 7/16 × 25 13/16 × 1 1/8 in.)","on_view":false}