New Documentary on Painter John Marin Will Premiere in December |
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| Written by Terri Templeton |
| Monday, 12 October 2009 02:45 |
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"John Marin: “Let the Paint be Paint!”" tells the story of one of the most important American artistic figures of the first half of the 20th century, and the undisputed father of American Modernism. Utilizing more than 70 of Marin’s paintings, drawings, and etchings, including those in the private collection of Norma Marin seldom seen anywhere, filmmaker Michael Maglaras reveals Marin's life, from his beginnings in New Jersey and his early experiments in watercolor, to his days at Cape Split in Down East Maine, where, with his late oils and watercolors, he established himself as one of the preeminent masters of American art. This documentary highlights Marin’s development as a man and as an artist from his early years as he struggled with his own artistic identity as a young man studying architecture, to his first moments of self-discovery as an etcher and painter, and brings us, finally, at the end of his life and in his 80s, to the painter and man whose unending quest for the new never ceased, and who served as the creative example to painters as diverse as Mark Rothko and Jackson Pollock. "John Marin: “Let the Paint be Paint!”" was written, narrated and directed by Michael Maglaras. Terri Templeton is executive producer. This film was shot on location at the Colby College Museum of Art in Waterville, Maine and at Marin’s summer home on Cape Split in Addison, Maine, where he produced some of his most outstanding and memorable work.
Colby College Museum of Art was founded in 1959 and now comprising four wings, more than 6,000 works, and more than 28,000 square feet of exhibition space, the Colby College Museum of Art has built a significant permanent collection that specializes in American and contemporary art. The Museum serves both as a teaching resource for Colby College and as an active cultural institution for the residents of Maine and visitors to the state.In the early 1950s, Miss Adeline and Miss Caroline Wing gave important paintings by William Merritt Chase, Winslow Homer, and others. In 1956, Mr. and Mrs. Ellerton M. Jetté, benefactors of the College, donated their American Heritage Collection, consisting of 76 works by American folk artists. The next year, the Helen Warren and Willard Howe Cummings Collection of American paintings and watercolors was given. Visit : www.colby.edu/museum/ Click on logo below to add this article to your favorite Social Website ~ |
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