Word: mariner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lifetime, Winslow Homer certainly never thought of himself primarily as a watercolorist. Yet modern critics are generally agreed that the U. S. has produced only three men who could create virile, important work in what is widely regarded as a minor art form: Winslow Homer, John Singer Sargent, John Marin...
Many people, including John Marin, have written a great deal in explanation of John Marin's art, It is simplest to call his work shorthand notes for pictures by a man with a fine sense of color, a riotous imagination and a hand disciplined by years of technical training. To many observers his blobs of pure color splashed loosely on big sheets of crinkly paper are more suggestive of the sea, sky, ships and mountains than all the careful paintings of the same subjects inside gilt frames in a dozen academies. Gallery-goers last week made much...
Living in bourgeois simplicity in Cliffside, N. J. with his wife and 21-year-old son, Artist Marin gave himself the luxury of a private studio for the first time in his life two months ago. He knocked the partition out between two small rooms. Always wearing high, stiff collars, he goes fishing whenever possible, likes billiards and tinkering his ancient Chandler automobile. Art groups he studiously avoids, has no truck with young people who paint abstractions. The abstract quality in his own paintings he hints at in his titles. A picture is apt to be called not Stonington Harbor...
...JOHN MARIN, THE MAN AND His WORK, by E. M. Benson-American Federation of Arts...
Different from the explosive genius of John Marin (see above), was another exhibit of landscapes which opened quietly this week at Manhattan's Kleemann Galleries : the first one-man show in seven years for Max Kuehne. Artist Kuehne's canvases hang in many museums. Year after year his etchings and lithographs have been listed in the various print societies' Best-Prints-of-the-Year selections. He once sold 32 pictures at a crack to Archer M. Huntington. He is one of the few U. S. painters whose works are included in the great collection of irascible Albert...