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John Marin | |||
| Born
1870 in Rutherford, NJ Died 1953 in Cape Split, ME |
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| Movement in White, Umber, and Cobalt Green, 1950 | ||||
| oil
paint on canvas 24 3/4 x 30 inches Bebe and Crosby Kemper Collection Gift of Mr. and Mrs. R. Crosby Kemper, Jr. 2000.7 |
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| Marin is considered one of the important early American modernists along with Georgia O’Keeffe, Arthur Dove, Alfred Stieglitz, and Marsden Hartley. Yet he didn’t become a serious artist until he was almost 40 years old. He is well known for his watercolors and summer landscapes of Maine. |