Marin, John (1870–1953).
American artist. He studied first at the Pennsylvania Academy and then at the Art Students' League in New York. He travelled in Europe between 1905 and 1909, where he developed a Whistlerian style of painting in muted colours, and also made etchings and watercolours. Upon his return to New York he joined the circle around Alfred Stieglitz's 291 Gallery. Here he developed his personal style, mixing a turbulent Expressionism with a strong pictorial structure and dynamic movement derived from Cubism and Futurism. He now began to depict iconic scenes of New York, redolent of the city's modernity, such as Brooklyn Bridge (c. 1912; New York, Met. Mus.). He was also drawn to the landscape and seascape around Maine which he depicted with a looser, gestural, Fauvist style, as in The Sea, Cape Split, Maine (1939; Washington, Phillips Coll.). During the 1920s he was important as a leading American modernist.
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