“Into My Blood”: John Marin’s “Maine Soil” and “Yankee Folk”

Kalamazoo College, Connable Recital Hall 1140. Academy Street, Kalamazoo, MI, United States

During this special offsite lecture, Dr. James Denison, Postdoctoral Fellow at Kalamazoo College and the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, will offer a new interpretation of the artist John Marin’s (1870–1953) work in Maine. Drawing on Marin’s writings, Denison’s presentation will investigate the artist’s attempted assimilation into what he perceived to be a rustic “Yankee” community…