Artist: John Marin

Schoelkopf Gallery presents a landmark exhibition exploring the immense impact of pioneering American modernist John Marin (1870 – 1953). This marks the first retrospective of Marin’s work in New York since the 1971 presentation at the Whitney Museum of American Art, offering a rare opportunity to view over seventy oils, watercolors, prints, and drawings that define his dynamic career. The retrospective celebrates the recent formation of the John Marin Foundation and offers, for the first time, many important works from the holdings of the foundation and the artist’s family.

John Marin is widely regarded as one of the most influential figures in twentieth-century art, and his work is distinguished by his expressive use of line, form, and color in his depictions of the natural world and urban environments. His innovative approach to abstraction and watercolor as a primary medium earned him significant critical and commercial success during his lifetime, exemplified by Charles Caffin’s review praising a 1913 exhibition of Marin’s work at Alfred Stieglitz’s Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession at no. 291 Fifth Avenue. Caffin noted Marin’s early development as a watercolorist following an instrumental 1909–10 sojourn in the Austrian Tyrol.