Word: marinated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...often done in the past 27 years. Alfred Stieglitz, photographer and art dealer, last week gave over his bleak, hospital-like Manhattan gallery to the paintings of his best friend. A wrinkled, shock-headed little man of 65, John Marin looks like a disheveled version of the late Sir Henry Irving. Because a new book on Artist Marin has just been published,* because critics like Henry McBride, Lewis Mumford and Julius Meier-Graefe have put themselves on record as considering John Marin the greatest water-colorist in the U. S., it was an important exhibit...
...Marin's name rhymes with barren. He likes to play down his ancestry (French-Dutch-Scotch-English), play up his U. S. birth and training. Twenty-seven years ago Stieglitz found Marin an art student in Paris, earning a skimpy living by meticulously etching French cathedrals in the Whistler manner. Rebelling at this finicky scratchwork, Marin would rush out to the country, splash gobs of water color around with one of the biggest brushes he could find. Dealer Stieglitz did not think much of the etchings, but grew so excited about the water colors that he practically adopted John...
Ministers of State: Former Premiers Flandin of the moderate Right and Herriot of the moderate Left; M. Louis Marin of the Right...
...Marin Mersenne, 17th Century mathematician...
Praise in lesser degree he has for John Sloan, Boardman Robinson, John Steuart Curry, Georgia O'Keeffe, John Marin, Reginald Marsh, William Cropper. He plays with the suggestion that Communism may prove the regeneration of art but only if the idea of Communism produces art, not if art is propaganda for the ideas of Communism...