John Marin (1870-1953)

Biography

John Marin was born in Rutherford, New Jersey in 1870. He did not pursue a career as an artist until he was nearly forty. Marin worked in various professions, including architecture, before his watercolors caught the attention of Edward Steichen, who provided Marin with the opportunity of showing at Alfred Stieglitz's 291 Gallery in New York.

Marin soon established a reputation in the United States and became increasingly famous for his watercolors of New York City and Maine. From 1929 to 1930 he lived in Taos, where he produced a body of work that was shown to critical acclaim in Stieglitz's galleries. Marin's fame grew precipitously, compounded by retrospectives at the Museum of Modern Art in 1936, the Institute of Modern Art in Boston in 1947, and the De Young Museum in San Francisco in 1949.

Marin passed away in his summer home in Addison, Maine in 1953, at the age of eighty-two.

Schools of Study

Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Art Students League, New York
Académie Julian, Paris

Partial List of Collections

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Selected Exhibitions

291 Gallery, New York
The Intimate Gallery, New York
An American Place, New York
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Institute of Modern Art, Boston, MA
De Young Museum, San Francisco, CA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Selected Works in Our Inventory