Art, literature & historySketch of Lower Manhattan
c. 1917
- Dating
- Approximate date range
- Held at
- Art Institute of Chicago
- 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.)
- Collection no.
- 1956.388
- Attribution
- By the artist
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
About this artwork
Sketch of Lower Manhattan — John Marin. c. 1917.
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.).
Collection record: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
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.
Description: © Art Institute of Chicago, original record, CC BY 4.0. HTML formatting removed; wording retained. Other artwork metadata: CC0.
Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.
Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.