"John Marin: Let the Paint be Paint!" - Massachusetts premiere of this new documentary

Written, narrated and directed by Michael Maglaras of 217 Films, “John Marin: Let the Paint be Paint!” tells the story of one of the most important 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 works in the private collection of the Marin estate which have seldom been exhibited, filmmaker Michael Maglaras tells the story of 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, he established himself as one of the preeminent masters of American art.

Marin’s work features prominently in Massachusetts-based collections. An important watercolor called "In the Adirondacks" is in the collection of the Harvard University Art Museum. A later oil, "Movement – Sea and Sky," painted in 1946, is at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and is featured in the film.

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