SELECTIONS FROM THE MARIN FAMILY COLLECTION
January 19 - April 20, 2024
This exhibition was created in partnership with the University of Maine Machias

Since the early 1950s, the Marin family has served as champions of scores of artists, as well as numerous art museums in Maine and throughout the United States. As evidenced in this exhibition, the collecting interest of the Marin family features a diversity of art styles and media, and the family continues to share its collection with various arts institutions.

The Marin family’s generosity is reflected in their significant gifts to the Zillman Art Museum, ZAM’s Museum of Art Alliance, and the University of Maine at Machias, a regional campus of the University of Maine.

Lisa Marin, granddaughter of famed painter John Marin, is the current steward of Marin’s body of work and the Marin Foundation. Over the years of her involvement with the Zillman Art Museum she has given a fine selection of important works on paper by John Marin, as well as works by other important contemporary artists such as Neil Welliver, Hunt Slonem, and R. B. Kitaj.

In 2025, ZAM will mount a solo-exhibition of John Marin’s works, a second programmatic installment featuring gifts of art from the Marin Family.

Image credit: John Marin (American 1870-1953) Marin Spring #8, 1939, Oil on canvas board, Gift of John C. & Norma E. Marin, On loan from the University of Maine Machias