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Home > Art > Dance of the Pueblo Indians

Dance of the Pueblo Indians

Artist

John Marin

Date

1929

Medium

Watercolor on paper

Object Type

Work on Paper

Dimensions

H- 21 1/2 x W- 28 3/8 in. (54.6 x 72.1 cm)

Artist's Country of Birth

United States

Collecting Area

American Modernism

Credit Line

The Vilcek Foundation

Accession Number

VF2014.02.01

Copyright

© The Vilcek Foundation

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The Artist;
Estate of the Artist;
[Richard York Gallery, New York, NY, 1998];
Lee Dirks Collection, Santa Fe, NM;
[The Owings Gallery, Santa Fe, NM];

New York, NY. An American Place. John Marin. November 1930.

New York, NY. Museum of Modern Art. John Marin: Watercolors, Oil Paintings, Etchings. October 1936, cat. no. 127, not ill.

Cleveland, OH. Cleveland Museum of Art. American Painting from 1860 until Today. June 23-October 4, 1937, p. 34, cat. no. 140, not ill.

New York, NY. Downtown Gallery. New Mexico as Painted by Stuart Davis, Marsden Hartley, John Marin, Georgia O’Keeffe, John Sloan. March 2-30, 1957, cat. no. 14, not ill.

Washington, D.C. Corcoran Gallery of Art. John Marin in Retrospect: An Exhibition of his Oils and Watercolors (March 2-April 15, 1962); Manchester, NH. Currier Gallery of Art (May 9-June 24, 1962), p. 34, cat no. 66, not ill.

Albuquerque, NM. University Art Museum, The University of New Mexico. Marin in New Mexico/1929 & 1930 (November 18-December 29, 1968); San Antonio, TX. Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute (February 7-March 7, 1969); Fort Worth, TX. Amon Carter Museum (March 21-May 12, 1969), p. 29, cat. no. 7, ill. p. 2.

New York, NY. Richard York Gallery. John Marin: The Painted Frame. October 12-December 9, 2000, p. 42, cat. no. 16, ill. p. 43.

Corpus Christi, TX. The Art Museum of South Texas. Masterpieces of American Modernism from the Vilcek Collection of American Art. September 13, 2018-January 6, 2019.

Reich, Sheldon. John Marin: Catalogue Raisonne: Part II. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1970, cat. no. 29.9, p. 604, ill. p. 604.

Richard York Gallery records, circa 1865-2005, bulk, 1981-2004. Box 37, Folder 141, Marin, John, 6572CY: Dance of the Pueblo Indians, 1998. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

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