Word: mariner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...John Marin was born in Rutherford, N. J. 60 years ago. His. long lank hair is still brown, makes him look like a smaller, sallower edition of the late Sir Henry Irving. He habitually wears high stiff collars, enjoys fishing. It is 22 years since Alfred Stieglitz, a distinguished photographer in his own right, first found John Marin in Paris making a precarious living by meticulously etching French cathedrals in the Whistler manner. In reaction to this intricate scratchwork he would go to the country, paint rapidly with loose splashes of color. Alfred Stieglitz had little sympathy with the Whistlerian...
...John Marin returned to the U. S., realized that there he could do his best work. Stieglitz gave him his first exhibition in 1910, has stood sponsor for his artistic career, guardian of his finances ever since. About five years ago the chorus of critical praise began humming. It became smart to own a Marin, expensive to buy one. Pictures that were little more than large sheets of rough paper with a few expertly placed blobs of color, brought $1,000, $2,000 and eventually...
Canny Promoter Stieglitz puts no set price on a Marin...
...What is the value of a picture?" asks he dramatically. "Is it $50, or $5,000? I don't know. . . . The important thing is that John Marin has got to live. The butcher has got to be paid. The record price for a Marin last year was $6,500. On the other hand I let a working girl have one, a good one too, who could only afford $100. I want to know who the buyer is, what he can afford to pay and where he lives, for the home a picture is going to is important. You know...
...Stieglitz Group: John Marin, Georgia O'Keeffe (Mrs. Stieglitz), Arthur G. Dove, Marsden Hartley, Charles Demuth, Photographer Paul Strand...