Marvin Cone
Marvin Dorwart Cone (October 21, 1891 – May 18, 1965) was an American painter in the regionalist style.[1]
Cone was born in
In 1906 he began a lifelong friendship with
In 1919, he studied for about five months at the
Marvin Cone sought to evoke his inner vision of nature rather than to create a realistic depiction of the rural landscape. To Cone, nature was a vehicle for revealing certain truths. His paintings integrated his firsthand observation of nature. He once said, "The purpose of art is not to reproduce life, but to present an editorial, a comment on life.... The artist does not set out to imitate nature. What would be the purpose of that? Let the camera with its clever mechanism imitate. Art, such as poetry, music, and painting, is simply a portion of the experience of the artist. When we actually see ideals, they become real to us. Art traces an abstraction and makes it audible or visual. It symbolizes the whole of life. We believe in something we can see.”[4]
References
- ^ a b Walch, Timothy (2009). "Cone, Marvin Dorwart". The Biographical Dictionary of Iowa. University of Iowa Press
- ^ a b "Marvin Cone – Artist Biography for Marvin Cone". www.askart.com. Retrieved 25 March 2018.
- ^ a b Longden, Tom. Marvin Cone. Des Moines Register
- ^ a b "Marvin Cone". Cedar Rapids Museum of Art. Retrieved 25 March 2018.