Doctor of Fine Arts. Marin was a resident of Cliffside Park, New Jersey in his last years, and also maintained a summer home in Addison, Maine, where he died in 1953. He was interred at Fairview Cemetery (Fairview, New Jersey). Works John Marin was among the first American artists to make abstract paintings. Marin is often credited with influencing the Abstract Expressionists. His treatment of paint—handling oils almost like watercolors—his forays into abstraction, and his use of evocative stretches of bare canvas caught the eye of younger painters. His experience with architecture might have contributed to the role played by architectural themes in his paintings and watercolors. The largest collection of Marin's paintings, watercolors, drawings, etchings, and photographs are at the Colby College Museum of Art, the John Marin Collection, given to the college by John Marin Jr. and Norma B. Marin. Marin's paintings are also represented in several important permanent collections and museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the Brooklyn Museum, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the National Gallery of Art and the Phillips Collection, both in Washington, D.C., the Fogg Art Museum in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the Currier Museum of Art in Manchester, New Hampshire, and many others. The White House acquired his 1952 painting The Circus No. 1 in 1962, <"Art in The White House A Nation's Pride", White House Historical Association, 2008.>, and it is now displayed in the Green Room. The artist's estate is represented by Schoelkopf Gallery, in New York City. References Further reading . . . . . . . . . . . . . External links "Deer Isle" Watercolor at The Art Institute of Chicago Self portrait at The National Portrait Gallery "Two Master Under Sail" watercolor by John Marin on artnet Short Biography Exhibition: "The Edge of Abstraction" John Marin discussed in Conversations from Penn State interview 1870 births 1953 deaths 19th-century American painters 19th-century American male artists American male painters 20th-century American painters Modern artists American landscape painters Art Students League of New York alumni People from Cliffside Park, New Jersey People from Rutherford, New Jersey People from Weehawken, New Jersey Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts alumni Burials at Fairview Cemetery (Fairview, New Jersey) Students of