Municipal Building, New York City

Municipal Building, New York City Marin, John Modernist painting Watercolors Watercolorists Municipal buildings John Marin (1870-1953), an American modernist painter and etcher , was also known for his abstract landscapes and watercolors. He attended Stevens Institute of Technology for a year and his experience with architecture might have contributed to the role played by architectural themes in his paintings and watercolors. While studying in Europe he mastered a type of watercolor where he achieved an abstract ambience, almost a pure abstraction with color that ranges from transparency to translucency, accompanied by strong opacities, and linear elements, always with a sense of freedom, which became one of his trademarks. Late in life Marin achieved tremendous prestige as an American painter, an elder statesman of American art. Davis Publications, Worchester, Massachusetts 1912 CE Painting Digital image Tuff; JPEG2000 Watercolor Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 20th century; American; Modernist New York, New York, United States Davis Publications, Worchester, Massachusetts

Municipal Building, New York City

Marin, John

Modernist painting

Watercolors

Watercolorists

Municipal buildings

John Marin (1870-1953), an American modernist painter and etcher , was also known for his abstract landscapes and watercolors. He attended Stevens Institute of Technology for a year and his experience with architecture might have contributed to the role played by architectural themes in his paintings and watercolors. While studying in Europe he mastered a type of watercolor where he achieved an abstract ambience, almost a pure abstraction with color that ranges from transparency to translucency, accompanied by strong opacities, and linear elements, always with a sense of freedom, which became one of his trademarks. Late in life Marin achieved tremendous prestige as an American painter, an elder statesman of American art.

Davis Publications, Worchester, Massachusetts

1912 CE

Painting

Digital image

Tuff; JPEG2000

Watercolor

Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

20th century; American; Modernist

New York, New York, United States

Davis Publications, Worchester, Massachusetts