John Marin (1870-1953)

This John Marin painting was exhibited in An American Place, Alfred Stieglitz’s last art gallery “on the seventeenth floor of a newly constructed skyscraper on Madison Avenue.” Among the contemporary artists exhibiting there, photographer Ansel Adams wrote that “The Place, and all that goes on within it is like coming across a deep pool of clear water in the desert…. Whoever drinks from this pool will never be thirsty.”