John Marin (December 23, 1870 – October 2, 1953) was an early American modernist visual artist.

In Philadelphia he studied with Thomas Pollock Anshutz, Hugh Henry Breckenridge and William Merritt Chase.

He had been introduced to Stieglitz by the photographer Edward Steichen, whom Marin in turn had met through the painter Arthur B. Carles.

[4] Marin spent his first summer in Maine in 1914 and almost immediately the rocky coast there became one of his favorite subjects.

Over the rest of his life, Marin became intimately familiar with the many moods of the sea and sky in Maine.

Marin was a resident of Cliffside Park, New Jersey for many years, and also maintained a summer home in Addison, Maine, where he died in 1953.

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.