Sketch of Lower Manhattan
John Marin
1915–1919
- Medium
- Graphite on lightweight, smooth, cream wove paper, laid down on white wove card
- Dimensions
- Primary support: 33.6 × 24.9 cm (13 1/4 × 9 13/16 in.); Secondary support: 38.4 × 28.5 cm (15 1/8 × 11 1/4 in.)
- Genre
- graphite
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
drawings (visual works)paintgraphiteprints and drawingwatercolorpaper (fiber product)water-base paint
About
A few years after the completion of the Woolworth Building and Marin’s initial etchings of it, the artist made a number of elegant, abstracted drawings and further etchings, including the drypoint-enhanced Woolworth from the River and the graphite Sketch of Lower Manhattan, in which he used line sparingly to study the force of the skyscraper in its purest, most distilled form.
