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. The expressive watercolor A Bit of Cape Split, Maine, 1940 by John Marin was gifted by Norma and John C. Marin, Jr in 1957, and was an early gift to the Zillman Art Museum-University of Maine. In 1971, these philanthropists and art collectors donated ten additional works to the University of Maine Machias.  

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Several pieces from the gallery’s Marin Family Collection. Photograph by Erika Hipsky (Maine Campus)