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Exhibition in the Art Gallery

BROADWAY BETWEEN 155 AND 156 STREETS • NEW YORK CITY

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC two to five o'clock daily except Mondays

THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND LETTERS

THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND LETTERS


What is the overruling communication of John Marin? Surely we are still too near him to gather it from amid the rich diversity of his work. Yet one seems to be learning from him that the visible world is constantly speaking, is prompted by mind and energy; and this he conveys in the twentieth century spirit, without any imposing of our human "moods" upon the scene — by selfless gazing. From Marin's lyrical series of the flowering fruit-trees of New Jersey to the oil paintings of sea-surge and tumult, nature seems to have been caught surprised, in a world where no men are, eternally fulfilling itself in energy and beauty.

The New World is only beginning to receive that patina which generations of artists have conferred upon the Old, that of being greatly pictured, that ultimate reconciliation of man and his physical environment; and our gratitude to John Marin is doubled by this indebtedness to him as poet-painter of our land.

THORNTON WILDER

John Marin was elected to the National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1942, and to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1943.