Woolworth from the River
John Marin
1917
- Medium
- Etching with drypoint, selectively wiped, on ivory Japanese paper
- Dimensions
- Plate: 28.2 × 22.7 cm (11 1/8 × 8 15/16 in.); Sheet: 43.8 × 33.3 cm (17 1/4 × 13 1/8 in.)
- Genre
- etching
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
printprints and drawingetchingpaper (fiber product)
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 <a href="https://www.artic.edu/artworks/2942>Sketch of Lower Manhattan", in which he used line sparingly to study the force of the skyscraper in its purest, most distilled form.
