2013 First-Class Forever Stamp,Modern Art in America: John Marin's "Sunset, Maine Coast"
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U.S. #4748b
2013 46¢ John Marin
Modern Art in America
Issue Date: March 7, 2013
Quantity: 1,950,000
Perforations: Serpentine Die Cut 10 1/2
Color: multicolored
Perforations: Serpentine Die Cut 10 1/2
Color: multicolored
John Marin’s painting Sunset, Maine Coast is one of twelve featured on the Modern Art in America: 1913-1931 stamps.
A New Jersey native who painted his way through Europe, John Marin found his greatest inspiration at the rocky coast of Maine.
After a failed attempt at becoming an architect, John Marin (1870-1953) embarked on his art career. Spending six years in European locales such as Holland, Belgium, Paris, and Italy, he quickly mastered an unparalleled style of watercolor painting. Employing abstract backgrounds, his colors varied from transparent to translucent and were offset by bold, opaque (non-transparent) elements, establishing his trademark style.
Marin first visited Maine in 1914 and immediately fell in love with the power and dynamic nature of the sea washing up against the rocks. He would spend almost every summer for the rest of his life there.
One of Marin’s greatest challenges as an artist was in giving his watercolors the strength and presence normally found in oil paintings. He soon abandoned the medium’s usual luminosity and began saturating his canvases with color. He then mixed them with charcoal and graphite and scrubbed the canvas to give it a more rugged and vigorous feeling.
Later in life, Marin’s abstract work was credited for influencing the Abstract Expressionist movement. The way he handled his paint, treating oils like watercolors, left an impression on the next generation of painters.
U.S. #4748b
2013 46¢ John Marin
Modern Art in America
Issue Date: March 7, 2013
Quantity: 1,950,000
Perforations: Serpentine Die Cut 10 1/2
Color: multicolored
Perforations: Serpentine Die Cut 10 1/2
Color: multicolored
John Marin’s painting Sunset, Maine Coast is one of twelve featured on the Modern Art in America: 1913-1931 stamps.
A New Jersey native who painted his way through Europe, John Marin found his greatest inspiration at the rocky coast of Maine.
After a failed attempt at becoming an architect, John Marin (1870-1953) embarked on his art career. Spending six years in European locales such as Holland, Belgium, Paris, and Italy, he quickly mastered an unparalleled style of watercolor painting. Employing abstract backgrounds, his colors varied from transparent to translucent and were offset by bold, opaque (non-transparent) elements, establishing his trademark style.
Marin first visited Maine in 1914 and immediately fell in love with the power and dynamic nature of the sea washing up against the rocks. He would spend almost every summer for the rest of his life there.
One of Marin’s greatest challenges as an artist was in giving his watercolors the strength and presence normally found in oil paintings. He soon abandoned the medium’s usual luminosity and began saturating his canvases with color. He then mixed them with charcoal and graphite and scrubbed the canvas to give it a more rugged and vigorous feeling.
Later in life, Marin’s abstract work was credited for influencing the Abstract Expressionist movement. The way he handled his paint, treating oils like watercolors, left an impression on the next generation of painters.