Although his collection is essentially confined to artists of the prewar era, many were avant-garde in their day; and some, like John Marin, are represented in depth.
His thesis was about how the painter John Marin, an early modernist, drew his inspiration from such New York icons as the Brooklyn Bridge and City Hall.
Artists in the collection include John Marin, Salvador Dal? Miriam Schapiro, Fairfield Porter, Hunt Slonem, Thomas Hart Benton, Alex Katz, Lynda Benglis, Milton Avery and Alexander Calder.
Some of the museum show's featured artists who followed Phillips and Blumenschein include Oscar Berninghaus, John Marin, Victor Higgins, Robert Henri, Howard Cook and Eanger Irving Couse.
Additionally, the museum s permanent collection includes work by artists associated with Maine such as Berenice Abbott, Marsden Hartley, Winslow Homer, John Marin, Carl Sprinchorn, and Andrew Wyeth.
They bring to mind John Marin's nearly abstract " Weehawken " studies from the same period, as well as the Abstract Expressionists, especially Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner.
Over the years their membership has included most of America's foremost printmakers including Mary Cassatt, Joseph Pennell, John Marin, Lee Chesney, Alfred Sessler, June Wayne and Childe Hassam.
Lachaise created remarkable portraits of the literary, social and artistic figures of his time, including E . E . Cummings, Georgia O'Keeffe, John Marin, Marianne Moore and Lincoln Kirstein.
While still a teenager, he had developed an appreciation of early Renaissance art, the murals of Jose Orozco and the paintings of Arthur Dove, John Marin and Kathe Kollwitz.
Reviewing exhibitions at Stieglitz's gallery, " 291, " Caffin had the opportunity to assess challenging artists as different as Abraham Walkowitz, Alfred Maurer, John Marin, Arthur Dove, and Marsden Hartley.