Artist
John Marin
born Rutherford, NJ 1870-died Cape Split, ME 1953

- Born
- Rutherford, New Jersey, United States
- Died
- Cape Split, Maine, United States
- Active in
- Cliffside, New Jersey, United States
- Biography
Painter, early modernist who worked in watercolors, oils and etching. His style was semi-abstract and expressionistic, though always rooted in natural forms and rhythms. In 1950 he became the first American to be given an exhibition at the Venice Biennale.
Joan Stahl American Artists in Photographic Portraits from the Peter A. Juley & Son Collection (Washington, D.C. and Mineola, New York: National Museum of American Art and Dover Publications, Inc., 1995)
Exhibitions
November 21, 2008–May 24, 2009
Graphic Masters I: Highlights from the Smithsonian American Art Museum is the first in a series of special installations that celebrate the extraordinary variety and accomplishment of American artists' works on paper.