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JOHN MARIN
(1870 -   )

Contemporary American

JOHN MARIN, contemporary American artist, is one of the few native-born painters whose life spans the period of national aesthetic evolution, and whose work expresses the technical and emotional resources required of a master and leader.

Born in the year 1870 of Spanish-French stock on his father's side and New England Yankee on his mother's, Marin's early youth was spent in New Jersey and Delaware. His environment during those formative years was rural, a fact which has produced many of the world's greatest lyric artists. His boyhood hobbies naturally were those of hunting and fishing, and these activities kept him intimately related to nature. At about the age of nine he addressed himself seriously to drawing in pencil such familiar objects as birds, trees, clouds, and ships.