ORTLES/ORTLER PEINT PAR JOHN MARIN

JOHN MARIN (1870-1953)
Ortles /Ortler (3,905 m)
Italie (Sud Tyrol)

In The Tyrol (1910), aquarelle sur papier , 17 3/4 x 15 1/8 in. Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville ME (Donation John Marin, Jr. & Norma B. Marin)

 
La montagne
Ortles (en italien) ou Ortler (en allemand) est un sommet des Alpes, à 3 905 m, point culminant du massif de l'Ortles, en Italie (Trentin-Haut-Adige). C'était également, jusqu'en 1919, le point le plus élevé de l'Autriche-Hongrie. Pendant la Première Guerre mondiale, l'armée austro-hongroise installe la position la plus élevée de la guerre sur la montagne, équipée de plusieurs pièces d'artillerie. Tous les itinéraires vers le sommet sont des circuits de haute altitude exigeants. Il est recouvert sur la face nord-ouest par un glacier. La face nord de la montagne est considérée comme la plus grande paroi de glace des Alpes orientales, bien que de plus en plus de roches émergent à cause de la fonte des glaciers. La légende de la "chasse fantastique", connue sous le nom de "Wilde Fahr " dont le point de départ était sur l'Ortles, vient de la religion germanique. Dans ce mythe l'Ortles est associé au royaume des morts. Une légende postérieure est plus connue, dans laquelle l'Ortles apparaît comme un géant. Celui-ci est vaincu par le nain Stelvio et moqué dans un poème (« Oh, géant Ortler, comme tu es petit ») puis se fige dans la glace et la neige32. Selon une autre légende, un ours se serait échappé de ses chasseurs par le Hintergrat jusqu'à Trafoi en 1881. Le Bärenloch, un bassin glaciaire sous le Tschierfeck, est également associé à un ours dans l'Ortles : on dit qu'il doit son nom à la découverte d'un squelette d'ours à cet endroit.

Le peintre
John Marin est un peintre aquarelliste, dessinateur et graveur. Il est particulièrement connu pour ses aquarelles expressionnistes de paysages marins du Maine et ses vues de Manhattan. Il est considéré comme un pionnier de l'art moderne américain. Marin, qui était ambidextre, a commencé à dessiner à sept ans et à peindre à seize ans. Il étudie d'abord l'ingénierie mécanique pendant dix-huit mois à partir de 1886 à l' Institut de technologie Stevens et commence sa carrière professionnelle dans le domaine de l'architecture1. De 1890 à 1892, il travaille comme dessinateur pour quatre architectes et de 1892 à 1897, il dirige sa propre entreprise et conçoit six résidences à Union City (New Jersey).
Puis, à vingt huit ans, décidant de faire carrière dans les beaux-arts, il étudie de 1899 à 1901 à la Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts et à l'Art Students League of New York. Parmi ses professeurs se trouvaient  William Merritt Chase. En 1905, il se rend en Europe, sa famille étant originaire de France, il vit à Paris de 1905 à 1909, fréquentant les académies et rencontrant des artistes. Pendant cette période, il voyage en Hollande, en Belgique, en Italie, en Autriche et en Angleterre. Il travaille principalement comme graveur, eaux-fortes inspirées de Paris4dans la tradition de James Abbott McNeill Whistler, mais exécute également un certain nombre d'aquarelles et de pastels. En 1907, il expose au Salon d'Automne. Il retourne à New York en 1909 pour sa première exposition personnelle à la Galerie 291 d'Alfred Stieglitz, rencontré grace au photographe Edward Steichen. Puis il s'installe définitivement aux États-Unis et participe en 1913, à l'Armory Show, et expose dans toutes les manifestations artistiques importantes organisées par la jeune école américaine, et régulièrement à la Fondation Carnegie à Pittsburgh. John Marin assimile les tendances du moment : impressionnisme, cubisme, fauvisme, expressionnisme, ainsi que des notions propres à l'art du paysage en Extrême-Orient, mais il reste indépendant et développe son propre style dans une forme d'expressionnisme personnelle, avec des explosions semi-abstraites de lignes, de formes et de couleurs animant des scènes avec une énergie unique. En laissant toutes les questions financières entre les mains de Stieglitz, Marin jouit d'une liberté absolue pour poursuivre son travail. Au cours des années suivantes, Marin peint quelques-unes des œuvres les plus importantes de sa carrière, inspirées par la ville de New York. Ses sujets sont les monuments architecturaux de la ville et les forces structurelles de base qui semblaient s'y trouver. Cependant, en 1914, il prit une nouvelle direction, s'éloignant de la ville et se tournant vers la nature, c'est l'année où il découvre le Maine1. Ainsi, il vit à Brooklyn, puis à Cliffside, dans le New Jersey, de 1916 à 1953, passant les étés dans les Berkshires, les Adirondacks, le Delaware, mais surtout sur la côte du Maine, à Small Point ou Deer Island dans la Baie de Penobscot et de 1933 à 1953 au cap Split. À l'exception des étés 1929 et 1930, qu'il passe à Taos, invité par Mabel Dodge Luhan, où il réalise une centaine d'aquarelles du Nouveau-Mexique. En 1936, une rétrospective est organisée par le Museum of Modern Art et en 1950 à la Biennale de Venise.

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MONT CHOCORUA PAR JOHN MARIN

 

JOHN MARIN (1870-1953)
Mont Chocorua (1 061 m - 3 480 ft)
États-Unis d'Amérique (New Hampshire)

In Mount Chocorua, série White Mountains, aquarelle, 1927. Harvard University Museums

 

La montagne
Le mont Chocorua (1 061 m - 3 480 pieds) est un sommet des White Mountains dansle  New Hampshire, le sommet, le plus à l'est de la chaîne Sandwich. Bien que la chaîne ne soit pas exceptionnelle pa son élévation, elle est très accidentée et offre d'excellentes vues sur les lacs, les montagnes et les forêts environnantes. Le sommet dénudé du mont Chocorua peut être vu de presque toutes les directions et peut être identifié à partir de nombreux points du centre du New Hampshire et de l'ouest du Maine.
On pense que Chocorua était le nom d'un homme amérindien au 18ème siècle, bien qu'il n'existe aucun document authentique de sa vie.
Le mont Chocorua est une destination populaire pour les randonneurs. Il y a de nombreux sentiers en haut de la montagne, et ils peuvent être assez encombrés pendant les mois d'été. Le Piper Trail (6,8 km dans chaque sens depuis l'est), le Champney Falls Trail (du nord) et le Liberty Trail (du sud-ouest) sont particulièrement populaires.

Le peintre
John Marin est  un peintre  américain fondateur du mouvement moderniste. Il a été l'un des premiers Américains à utiliser des techniques d'abstraction dans ses représentations calligraphiques de paysages et de rues de la ville. Avec Arthur Dove, Marsden Hartley et Georgia O'Keeffe, Marin a contribué à introduire un nouveau modèle esthétique  "Je dois pour ma part insister sur le fait qu'une fois terminé, c'est-à-dire lorsque toutes les pièces sont en place et fonctionnent, le tableau est devenu un objet et aura donc ses limites aussi définies que la proue, la poupe, les côtés et le fond lié comme dans un bateau », déclarait il.
Marin a commencé sa carrière artistique assez tard dans la vie et fut  diplômé de la Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts en 1901 à l'âge de 30 ans. En 1905, il voyagea en Europe, vécut à Paris (1905-1909) où il  développéasa technique d'aquarelle et rencontre l'artiste Edward Steichen. C'est Steichen qui présenta son travail au photographe Alfred Stieglitz, qui  monta la première exposition personnelle de Marin en 1909 et soutint financièrement l'artiste pendant le reste de sa carrière.
Aujourd'hui, ses œuvres font partie des collections du Museum of Modern Art de New York, de la Phillips Collection de Washington, D.C. et de l'Art Institute of Chicago, entre autres.
Il a développé un style plus dynamique et fracturé à partir de 1912 pour peindre l'interaction des forces en conflit, et a progressivement développé des manières sommaires de rendre ses impressions vives de la mer, du ciel, des montagnes ou des gratte-ciel de Manhattan. Dans les années 1920  il travailla presque exclusivement à l'aquarelle ; après 1930  il opta pour l'huile sur toile .
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MOUNT CHOCORUA PAINTED BY JOHN MARIN

JOHN MARIN (1870-1953)

Mount Chocorua (1,061m - 3,480 ft)

United States of America (New Hampshire)

In Mount Chocorua, White Mountains series,  watercolor, 1926.

The painter 
John Marin was a seminal American modernist painter. He was one of the first Americans to employ techniques of abstraction in his calligraphic depictions of landscapes and city streets. Along with Arthur Dove, Marsden Hartley, and Georgia O’Keeffe, Marin helped introduce a new aesthetic model for American painters. “I must for myself insist that when finished, that is when all the parts are in place and are working, that now it has become an object and will therefore have its boundaries as definite as the prow, the stern, the sides, and bottom bound as a boat” he once reflected.
Marin started his career in art later in life, graduating from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1901 at the age of 30. In 1905, he travelled to Europe, lived in Paris (1905-1909) where he developed his signature watercolor technique and met the artist Edward Steichen. It was Steichen that introduced his work to the photographer Alfred Stieglitz, who mounted Marin’s first solo show in 1909, and financially supported the artist over the remainder of his career.
Today, his works are held in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., and the Art Institute of Chicago, among others.
He developed a more dynamic, fractured style from 1912 to depict the interaction of conflicting forces, and gradually evolved summary ways of rendering his vivid impressions of sea, sky, mountains or the skyscrapers of Manhattan. In the 1920s worked almost exclusively in watercolour; after 1930 painted largely in oils.

The mountain 
Mount Chocorua (1,061m - 3,480 ft) is a summit in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, the easternmost peak of the Sandwich Range. Although the range is not outstanding for its elevation, it is very rugged and has excellent views of the surrounding lakes, mountains, and forests. Mount Chocorua's bare summit can be seen from almost every direction and can be identified from many points throughout central New Hampshire and western Maine.
It is believed that Chocorua was the name of a Native American man in the 18th century, although no authentic records of his life exist. The usual story is that in about 1720 Chocorua was on friendly terms with settlers and in particular the Campbell family that had a home in the valley now called Tamworth. Chocorua was called away and left his son in the care of the Campbell family. The boy found and drank a poison that Mr. Campbell had made to eliminate troublesome foxes, and Chocorua returned to find his son had died. Chocorua, distraught with grief, pledged revenge on the family. Shortly thereafter, Mr. Campbell returned home one afternoon to find his wife and children had been slain. Campbell suspected Chocorua and pursued him up the mountain that today bears his name. Chocorua was wounded by a shot from Campbell's rifle. Before Campbell could reach Chocorua, he uttered a curse upon the white settlers and their homes, livestock, and crops, and leapt from the summit to his death. There are at least three other versions of the legend of Chocorua...
Mount Chocorua is a popular destination for hikers. Although it is under 3,500 feet (1,100 m) in elevation, its bare and rocky summit commands excellent views in all directions. Since most trails begin at much lower elevations, a hike to the summit is a strenuous exercise. There are many trails up the mountain, and they can be quite crowded during the summer months. Especially popular are the Piper Trail (4.2 miles (6.8 km) each way from the east), the Champney Falls Trail (from the north), and the Liberty Trail (from the southwest).

2018 - Wandering Vertexes...
by Francis Rousseau 

TUNK MOUNTAIN BY JOHN MARIN

JOHN MARIN (1870-1953)

Tunk Mountain (1,845m- 6,053ft) 

United States of America

In Tunk Mountains, Autumn, Maine, 1945 watercolor, The Phillips collection.

The mountain 

Tunk Mountain (1,845m- 6,053ft)  is a mid-elevation peak located in Okanogan County, Washington State. The peak is most famous for its fire lookout tower which still exists today. In addition, the mountain is important to peakbaggers due to its status as one of the most prominent peaks in Washington. With 2013' of clean prominence, Tunk Mountain is the 140th-most prominent peak in Washington, one of only 144 peaks with at least 2000' of clean prominence.

The summit originally had a lookout tower built during 1933 by the United States Forest Service, but its primary purpose was as a detection point rather than a fire lookout. The original lookout tower was a 40' tall pole tower with L-4 cab. The U.S. Forest Service later transferred ownership of the tower to the State of Washington. During 1966, the Washington Department of Natural Resources (DNR) destroyed the original lookout tower. The organization replaced it with another 40' tall tower but with a live-in cab included. After many years the lookout tower was no longer officially used by DNR, and the organization sold the tower to private ownership during the mid-1990s. The private group has a special use permit allowing the tower to remain on-site, and volunteers maintain the structure. 

The Tunk Mountain lookout tower is listed on the National Historic Lookout Register.

The painter 
John Marin was a seminal American modernist painter. He was one of the first Americans to employ techniques of abstraction in his calligraphic depictions of landscapes and city streets. Along with Arthur Dove, Marsden Hartley, and Georgia O’Keeffe, Marin helped introduce a new aesthetic model for American painters. “I must for myself insist that when finished, that is when all the parts are in place and are working, that now it has become an object and will therefore have its boundaries as definite as the prow, the stern, the sides, and bottom bound as a boat” he once reflected.
Marin started his career in art later in life, graduating from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1901 at the age of 30. In 1905, he travelled to Europe, lived in Paris (1905-1909) where he developed his signature watercolor technique and met the artist Edward Steichen. It was Steichen that introduced his work to the photographer Alfred Stieglitz, who mounted Marin’s first solo show in 1909, and financially supported the artist over the remainder of his career.
Today, his works are held in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., and the Art Institute of Chicago, among others.
He developed a more dynamic, fractured style from 1912 to depict the interaction of conflicting forces, and gradually evolved summary ways of rendering his vivid impressions of sea, sky, mountains or the skyscrapers of Manhattan. In the 1920s worked almost exclusively in watercolour; after 1930 painted largely in oils.

2018 - Wandering Vertexes...
by Francis Rousseau 

MOUNT WASHINGTON BY JOHN MARIN

JOHN MARIN  (1870-1953)

Mount Washington (1, 916m - 6, 286ft)

United States of America (New Hampshire) 

The mountain 

Mount Washington (1, 916m - 6, 286ft) is the highest point in the northeastern United States. It is located in the White Mountains in the county of Coos. Most of the mountain is located in the White Mountain National Forest and Mount Washington State Park.
The mountain is called Agiocochook, the "abode of the great spirit," by the Amerindians. A scientific expedition led by geologist Dr. Cutler named Mount Washington in 1784.
While the western slope, which climbs the Cog Railway, is regular from its base, the other slopes are more complex. To the north, Great Gulf, the largest glacial circus in the mountains, is surrounded by the Northern Presidentials, namely Clay, Jefferson, Adams and Madison Mountains. These peaks reach far beyond the alpine zone beyond the tree line. The imposing Chandler Ridge extends northeast from the top of Mount Washington to form the southern wall of the amphitheater. It is paced by a motorway to the summit.
The first European to mention the mountain is Giovanni da Verrazzano in 1524, who sees it from the Atlantic Ocean and describes it as a "high mountain of the interior". Irishman Darby Field says he made his first ascent in 1642.

More about Mount Washington 

The painter
John Marin was a seminal American modernist painter. He was one of the first Americans to employ techniques of abstraction in his calligraphic depictions of landscapes and city streets. Along with Arthur Dove, Marsden Hartley, and Georgia O’Keeffe, Marin helped introduce a new aesthetic model for American painters. “I must for myself insist that when finished, that is when all the parts are in place and are working, that now it has become an object and will therefore have its boundaries as definite as the prow, the stern, the sides, and bottom bound as a boat” he once reflected.
Marin started his career in art later in life, graduating from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1901 at the age of 30. In 1905, he travelled to Europe, lived in Paris (1905-1909) where he developed his signature watercolor technique and met the artist Edward Steichen. It was Steichen that introduced his work to the photographer Alfred Stieglitz, who mounted Marin’s first solo show in 1909, and financially supported the artist over the remainder of his career.
Today, his works are held in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., and the Art Institute of Chicago, among others.
He developed a more dynamic, fractured style from 1912 to depict the interaction of conflicting forces, and gradually evolved summary ways of rendering his vivid impressions of sea, sky, mountains or the skyscrapers of Manhattan. In the 1920s worked almost exclusively in watercolour; after 1930 painted largely in oils.

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2019 - Wandering Vertexes...
by Francis Rousseau

BEAR MOUNTAIN PAINTED BYJOHN MARIN

JOHN MARIN (1870-1953) 

Bear Mountain  (393m - 1,289ft)

United States of America 

The mountain 
Bear Mountain  (393m - 1,289ft) is one of the best-known peaks of New York's Hudson Highlands. Located partially in Orange County in the town of Highlands and partially in Rockland County in the town of Stony Point, it lends its name to the nearby Bear Mountain Bridge and Bear Mountain State Park that contains it. Its summit, accessible by a paved road, has several roadside viewpoints, a picnic area and an observatory, the Perkins Memorial Tower. It is crossed by several hiking trails as well, including the oldest section of the Appalachian Trail (AT). As of 2015, the AT across Bear Mountain is continuing to be improved by the New York–New Jersey Trail Conference to minimize erosion and improve accessibility and sustainability as part of a project to rebuild and realign the trail that began in 2006.
The steep eastern face of the mountain overlooks the Hudson River. The eastern side of the mountain consists of a pile of massive boulders, often the size of houses, that culminate in a 50-foot (15 m) cliff face at approximately the 1,000-foot (300 m) level. A direct scramble from the shore of Hessian Lake to Perkins Memorial Drive on the summit requires a gain of about 1,000 feet (300 m) in roughly 0.8 miles (1.3 km). From the summit, one can see as far as Manhattan, and the monument on High Point in New Jersey.


The painter 
John Marin was a seminal American modernist painter. He was one of the first Americans to employ techniques of abstraction in his calligraphic depictions of landscapes and city streets. Along with Arthur Dove, Marsden Hartley, and Georgia O’Keeffe, Marin helped introduce a new aesthetic model for American painters. “I must for myself insist that when finished, that is when all the parts are in place and are working, that now it has become an object and will therefore have its boundaries as definite as the prow, the stern, the sides, and bottom bound as a boat” he once reflected.
Marin started his career in art later in life, graduating from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1901 at the age of 30. In 1905, he travelled to Europe, lived in Paris (1905-1909) where he developed his signature watercolor technique and met the artist Edward Steichen. It was Steichen that introduced his work to the photographer Alfred Stieglitz, who mounted Marin’s first solo show in 1909, and financially supported the artist over the remainder of his career.
Today, his works are held in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., and the Art Institute of Chicago, among others.
He developed a more dynamic, fractured style from 1912 to depict the interaction of conflicting forces, and gradually evolved summary ways of rendering his vivid impressions of sea, sky, mountains or the skyscrapers of Manhattan. In the 1920s worked almost exclusively in watercolour; after 1930 painted largely in oils.

2018 - Wandering Vertexes...
by Francis Rousseau 

MOUNT TAMALPAIS PAINTED BY WILLIAM KEITH

WILLIAM KEITH (1838-1911)  

Mount Tamalpais (784m -  2,571 ft)  

 United State of America (California)

  In Sunset Glow on Mt Tamalpais, oil on canvas, 1896 Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

The mountain 
Mount Tamalpais (784m -  2,571 ft)  known locally as Mount Tam is a peak in Marin County, California, United States, often considered symbolic of Marin County.  The name Tamalpais was first recorded in 1845. It comes from the Coast Miwok name for this mountain, támal pájiṣ, literally "west hill". Much of Mount Tamalpais is protected within public lands such as Mount Tamalpais State Park, the Marin Municipal Water District watershed, and National Park Service land, such as Muir Woods. Mount Tamalpais is the highest peak in the Marin Hills, which are part of the Northern California Coast Ranges.
Mount Tamalpais provides one of the last remaining wildlife refuges in the Bay Area. Urbanization has invaded wildlife habitat, forcing many fauna in southern Marin County to retreat up onto Mount Tamalpais, Muir Woods, and the Bolinas Ridge. A wide variety of avifauna, amphibians, arthropods and mammals are found on Mount Tamalpais, including a number of rare and endangered species. Nonetheless, Mt. Tamalpais and the neighboring Golden Gate Recreation Area together encompass over 115 square miles (298 square kilometers) of land, forming one of the largest preserved parklands located near a U.S. urban center.
Mount Tamalpais has been a common subject in California landscape painting. Painters who have made Tamalpais the subject of one or more paintings include Etel Adnan, Harry Cassie Best, Albert Bierstadt, Norton Bush, Russell Chatham, Edwin Deakin, Percy Gray, Ransome Gillett Holdridge, Tom Killion, William Marple, William Birch McMurtrie, Gilbert Munger, Julian Rix, Frederick Schafer, Jules Tavernier, Nancy Wallace, Thaddeus Welch, Ludmilla Welch, Virgil Williams, Jack Wisby, Theodore Wores, and Raymond Dabb Yelland.

The painter
William Keith (November 18, 1838 – April 13, 1911) was a Scottish-American painter famous for his California landscapes. He is associated with Tonalism and the American Barbizon school. Although most of his career was spent in California, he started out in New York, made two extended study trips to Europe, and had a studio in Boston in 1871-72 and one in New York in 1880.
When Keith went to California, and traveled to Yosemite Valley in the 70' with a letter of introduction to John Muir. The two men became deep friends for the next 38 years. Both had been born in Scotland the same year, and they shared a love for the mountains of California. James Mitchell Clarke described their friendship as one "in which deep affection and admiration were expressed through a kind of verbal boxing, counter-jibe answering jibe, counter-insult responding to insult."
During the 1870s Keith painted a number of six- by ten-foot panoramas, including Kings River Canyon (Oakland Museum, originally owned by Gov. Leland Stanford) and "California Alps" (Mission Inn, Riverside). These competed with paintings of similar size and subject matter by Albert Bierstadt and Thomas Hill.
 "My subjective pictures are the ones that come from the inside. I feel some emotion and I immediately paint a picture that expresses it. The sentiment is the only thing of real value in my pictures, and only a few people understand that. Suppose I want to paint something recalling meditation or repose. If people do not feel that sensation when my work is completed, they do not appreciate nor realize the picture. The fact that they like it means nothing. Any one who can use paint and brushes can paint a true scene of nature — that is an objective picture. The artist must not depend on extraneous things. There is no reality in his art if he must depend on outside influences — it must come from within."
 ( From 1913 Exhibition booklet, Art Institute of Chicago)

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