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Thereupon Julian Marin, a boy from a nearby Navarre town, made himself a hero. He fought No. 21 all over the ring, on his knees, sitting on the barrera and on his feet, so close to the bull that twice everybody thought the bull had him. On his first attempt to kill, he missed; normally, this would have forfeited his chance to get a full set of trophies-the bull's ears and tail. On his second try, he killed well. When the president of the corrida gave him only two ears, the crowd waved handkerchiefs until Marin...
...with the help of his growing circle of admirers. Along with photographers, he introduced most of the pioneers of modern art to the U.S. Among them were Cézanne, Toulouse-Lautrec. Rodin, Picasso and Matisse. He fought for home talent too; Max Weber, Arthur Dove, Marsden Hartley, John Marin, Charles Demuth and Georgia O'Keeffe (whom he later married) all rose to fame through him. But Stieglitz always insisted he was no dealer. He never sold a painting unless he was sure the buyer appreciated it, and refused to take a commission. Stieglitz' own magnificent collection (part...
...Marin, one of the few problems in painting is balance. "Think of the wonderful balance of squirrels," he told Helm. "They scratch themselves equally well with hind paws or fore paws without losing their balance. I like my pictures to have that kind of balance. ... I stand them up on their end, turn them upside down, until I see that, like the squirrels, they have got balance in every direction...
...Marin is a flowing-haired nature-lover who has no interest in transcribing nature, and a modern artist who finds himself "completely unsympathetic with cubism or other forms of abstraction, or with surrealism. I belong to no ism. I haven't the time. Shakespeare belonged to no ism." When a reporter cornered the old, thin man at the opening of his Boston show to ask who were his favorite painters, wry, shy John Marin had his answer ready: "Myself...
...About 500 Marin pictures are in museums or private collections. Another 150 are tied up in the estate of famed Photographer Alfred Stieglitz, who discovered Marin. Marin himself has between 500 and 1,000. His good oils bring $4,000 or more; the best water colors, from...