JOHN MARIN - WATERCOLOR - WHITE MOUNTAIN COUNTRY
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"White Mountain Country" Watercolor by John Marin (U.S.) > Signature: Signed "Marin" in lower right hand corner > Circa Date: 1950's > Size: 9 3/4" wide by 7 1/4" high, exclusive of matting and frame > Title: White Mountain Country, No 34, Franconia Range, Mountain and Fir Trees > Medium/Material: Watercolor > Genre: Impressionist (born December 23, 1870, Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.—died October 1, 1953, Cape Split, Maine) American painter and printmaker especially known for his expressionistic watercolour seascapes of Maine and his views of Manhattan.After working as an architectural draftsman, Marin studied painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia and at the Art Students League of New York City. In 1905 he went to Europe, where he was influenced by the watercolours and etchings of James McNeill Whistler. Marin remained largely unaware of the new movements in European art until 1910, when he returned to New York. There, at Alfred Stieglitz's “291” gallery and at the Armory Show in 1913, he became familiar with Cubism and the various schools of German Expressionism. Influenced by those movements, his own style matured into a very personal form of expressionism, exemplified in works such as The Singer Building (1921) and Maine Islands (1922).Artists usually employ watercolour to produce only delicate,
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