Certain artists whose styles developed earlier, like Milton Avery, Stuart Davis and John Marin, have, of course, always been given their due.
He began doing expressionist works, a little like John Marin or Lyonel Feininger, which were what McFee chose for the Los Angeles show.
Included are paintings, drawings and sculptures by artists like O'Keeffe, Arthur Dove and John Marin, who all believed that modern art meant abstraction.
Also included are 10 works by John Marin, whose freestyle but firmly structured watercolors of mountains and ocean struck a chord with Simon.
""'Hurricane " "'is a 1944 oil painting by American artist John Marin, located in the Indianapolis Museum of Art, which is in Indianapolis, Indiana.
They include John Marin's " Near Taos, New Mexico, " a 1930 work that Sotheby's has priced at $ 30, 000 to $ 40, 000.
He claimed that during 1962-1963, he filled a notebook with watercolors influenced by Phillips Collection artists such as Paul Klee, John Marin, and Arthur Dove.
He was friends with respected avant-garde American artists like Arthur Dove, Marsden Hartley, and John Marin, almost all of whom were better known than he was.
Stieglitz was intrigued by their modern vision, within months Alfred Maurer, John Marin and Marsden Hartley all had their works hanging on the walls of 291.