PORTLAND, ME.- Although John Marin (1870-1953) was regarded as one of America’s most important painters at the time of his death, scholarship and museum exhibitions to date have focused on his early work coloring popular understanding of his life’s work. Featuring approximately 60 paintings, drawings, and watercolors, John Marin: Modernism at Midcentury, on view through October 10, 2011 at the Portland Museum of Art, concentrates on the late period of John Marin’s career between 1933 and 1953. This exhibition, the first in-depth examination of the artist since 1990, explores his late career, adds nuance to our understanding of his work, and reclaims Marin’s reputation as an artist committed to developing a modern visual language of landscape and place in an era preoccupied with complete abstraction