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Birth
1870 (Rutherford, New Jersey)
Death
1953 (Cape Split, Maine)
Lived/Active
New York/Maine / France
In his studio at Cliffside, NJ
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Often Known For
painting-modernist landscape-coastal, etching
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Categories of Interest
New York Armory Show of 1913
Fauves/Fauvism
San Francisco Panama-Pacific Exhibition 1915
Taos Pre 1940
Modernism
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A prominent New York architect who became an artist, John Marin earned
a reputation for abstract watercolor paintings influenced by Cubism* and
Futurism*. He was one of the Taos, New Mexico Colony painters in the
late 1920s, and his work is credited as an important precedent to
Abstract Expressionism*.
Marin was born in Rutherford, New
Jersey, and grew up in nearby Weehawken. He attended the Pennsylvania
Academy of the Fine Arts*, studying with Thomas Anshutz, then s (showing 500 of 46940 characters). |
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