LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

25.00 in. (63.50 cm.) (height) by 30.00 in. (76.20 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed and dated 'Marin 41' (l.r.)--inscribed with title (verso)

Exhibited:

New York, An American Place, John Marin, Oils and Watercolors, 1941, December 9, 1941-January 27, 1942, no. 3 (as Sea Raising More Hell) or no. 4 (as Sea Raising Hell). Boston, Massachusetts, Museum of Fine Arts; Washington, D.C., The Phillips Memorial Gallery; San Francisco, California, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Los Angeles, California, Art Galleries of the University of California; Cleveland, Ohio, Cleveland Museum of Art; Minneapolis, Minnesota, Minneapolis Institute of Arts; Athens, Georgia, University of Georgia Museum of Art; New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, John Marin Memorial Exhibition, March 1, 1955-July 29, 1956, no. 12. London, Arts Council Gallery, John Marin: Paintings, Water-colours, Drawings and Etchings, 1956. New York, The Museum of Modern Art, The Mrs. Adele R. Levy Collection/A Memorial Exhibition, June 9-July 6, 1961, pp. 11, 31, illustrated. Washington, D.C., The Corcoran Gallery of Art; Manchester, New Hampshire, Currier Gallery of Art, John Marin in Retrospect: An Exhibition of His Oils and Watercolors, March 2-June 24, 1962, pp. 23-24, no. 15, illustrated. St. Louis, Missouri, St. Louis Art Museum; Honolulu, Hawaii, Honolulu Academy of Arts; Boston, Massachusetts, Museum of Fine Arts, The Ebsworth Collection: American Modernism 1911-1947, November 20, 1987-June 5, 1988, pp. 13-14, 31, 130-31, 211, no. 43, illustrated. New York, Washburn Gallery, Albert Pinkham Ryder: The Descendants, November 7-December 2, 1989. Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art; Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Twentieth-Century American Art: The Ebsworth Collection, March 5-November 12, 2000, pp. 174-76, 291, no. 43, illustrated. Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, Modern Art and America: Alfred Stieglitz and his New York Galleries, January 28-April 22, 2001, pp. 350-51, 534, no. 127, illustrated. Salem, Massachusetts, Peabody Essex Museum, Painting Summer in New England, April 22-September 4, 2006, pp. 36, 43, no. 23, illustrated Portland, Maine, Portland Museum of Art; Fort Worth, Texas, Amon Carter Museum of American Art; Andover, Massachusetts, Phillips Academy, Addison Gallery of American Art, John Marin: Modernism at Midcentury, June 23, 2011-April 1, 2012, no. 13, illustrated (as My Hell Rising).

Literature:

American Art Research Council, no. 235. Archives of American Art, Downtown Gallery Papers, roll ND 14, frame 617. S. Reich, John Marin: A Stylistic Analysis and Catalogue Raisonné, vol. II, Tucson, Arizona, 1970, p. 717, no. 41.28. A. Skolnick, ed., The Paintings of Maine, New York, 1991, pp. 86-87, 126, illustrated. C.P. Potholm, Maine: An Annotated Bibliography, New York, 2011, p. 123.

Provenance:

The Downtown Gallery, New York. Mr. and Mrs. David Levy, New York, acquired from the above, 1954. The Adele R. Levy Fund, Inc., New York, acquired from the above, 1961. Mr. and Mrs. Phillip M. Stern, Washington, D.C., acquired from the above, by 1962. Peter H. Davidson and Co., Inc., New York, acquired from the above, 1981. Acquired by the late owner from the above, 1982.