Fort Worth, Texas.- The Amon Carter Museum is proud to present “John Marin: Modernism at Midcentury” on view at the museum through January 8th 2012. In this special exhibition of over 50 oils and watercolors, Marin’s work from 1933 until his death in 1953 will be on view. Beginning in 1914, Marin drew inspiration from Maine’s forested mountains, picturesque towns, misty harbors and rolling seas; in 1933, he began living part of each year on Cape Split, a remote and sparsely settled northern peninsula in Pleasant Bay.”John Marin: Modernism at Midcentury” was co-organized by the Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, and the Portland Museum of Art, Maine.  Marin grew up in Weehawken, New Jersey, and attended the Stevens Institute of Technology for a year. His experience with architecture might have contributed to the role played by architectural themes in his paintings and watercolors. Marin is often credited with influencing the Abstract Expressionists.