Though the journal was short
lived, it inspired Dumont, and
put him in contact with several other
painters of the time, including Apollinaire, Duchamp, and Picabia.
Sooner or later, everyone who writes about John Marin gets around to mentioning the 1948 Look magazine poll of 68 critics, curators and museum directors who, when asked to name America's greatest
living painters,
put him at the top of the list.