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The White House acquired his 1952 painting The Circus No. 1 in 1962, <"Art in The White House A Nation's Pride", White House Historical Association, 2008.>, and it is now displayed in the Green Room.
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Although his name has fallen into obscurity in the seventy years since his death it was not for nothing that John Marin was named “America's Artist No. 1” by Look magazine in 1947. As art critic Roberta Smith recognizes, Marin was “possibly the first American artist to make abstract paintings”, and while he never abandoned figuration ...
- American
- December 23, 1870
- Rutherford, New Jersey
- October 2, 1953
For 25 years John Marin dominated the American art scene with his startling watercolors. His work bordered on abstraction, but remained rooted in nature. He never abandoned his subjects: New England landscapes, the Manhattan skyline and especially the Maine seacoast.
John Marin was among the first American artists to make abstract paintings. Marin is often credited with influencing the Abstract Expressionists. His treatment of paint—handling oils almost like watercolors—his forays into abstraction, and his use of evocative stretches of bare canvas caught the eye of younger painters.
- American
- December 23, 1870
- Rutherford, New Jersey, United States
- October 2, 1953
Sep 29, 2017 · In 1947 another major retrospective was held at the Institute of Modern Art in Boston, after which Look magazine pronounced him “America’s Artist No. 1.”. In 1949 a major retrospective exhibition of his oils, watercolors, and etchings was held at the M. H. De Young Memorial Museum in San Francisco.
John Marin (1870–1953) enjoyed enormous success and visibility during his lifetime, both at home and in Europe. (In fact, Look magazine named him “America’s No. 1 artist” in 1948.)
In 1914, with the first of what became annual summer excursions to the coast of Maine, Marin began to paint the sea and rural landscapes. He also portrayed the distinctive topography of the Southwest in watercolors made during two visits to Taos, New Mexico, in 1929 and 1930.
