Collection: Marguerite Zorach (1887-1968)

Marguerite Zorach (Marguerite Thompson Zorach) was a Fauvist painter, textile artist and graphic designer. From 1908-1911, she studied in Paris at the progressive school, La Palette. During this time she met her husband-to-be, William Zorach. In 1912, after returning to the United States, the couple married. They lived in Greenwich Village and worked closely together on many paintings.

Zorach did not fully receive critical acclaim as an American painter until after her death in 1970, when many of her earlier canvases were rediscovered. Although her fame was post-humus, she had a number of profound accomplishments within her lifetime. Both she and her husband exhibited their art in the 1913 Armory Show in New York (a show that helped to change the way Americans view art), and she was elected Director of the Society of Independent Artists and was the first President of the New York Society of Women Artists.

Works Held: National Museum of American Art; Metropolitan Museum of Art; Whitney Museum of American Art; Newark Museum; Brooklyn Museum; Colby College; Speed Museum; Massillon Museum; Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration Murals; United States Post Office, Peterborough, New Hampshire; Ripley, Tennessee; Monticello, Illinois.

Exhibitions: Salon d'Automne, 1908, 1911; Society of Independent Artists, Paris, 1911; Society of Independent Artists, New York, 1917-18, 1921-24, 1941; Royar Galleries, Los Angeles, solo, 1912; Amory Show, 1913; Contemporaries, New York, solo, 1913; Playhouse, Cleveland, 1913; Daniel Gallery, New York City, 1915-16, 1918; Pan-Pacifico Expo, San Francisco, (medal, 1915); Forum Exhibit, New York City, 1916 (only woman to exhibit); Dayton Museum of Art, 1922; Salons of America, 1922-36); Montross Gallery, New York City, solo, 1923; Downtown Gallery, New York, solo, 1928, 30, 34; C.W. Kraushaar,1953, 57, 62; Art Institute of Chicago, 1926-49.


Further Reading: Who Was Who in American Art 1564-1975: 400 Years of Artists in America, Vol. 1. Peter Hastings Falk, Georgia Kuchen and Veronica Roessler, eds., Sound View Press, Madison, Connecticut, 1999. 3 Vols. (Original Listing 1940); An Encyclopedia of Women Artists of the American West, Phil Kovonick, Marian Yoshiki-Kovnick, University of Texas Press, Austin, 1999, 3rd Edition.; Artists in California (1786-1940), Edan Milton Hughs, Hughs Publishing Company, San Francisco, 1986, 1st edition.

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