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Date 1930s
Classification Painting
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 30 × 37 in. (76.2 × 94 cm)
Frame 38 ¾ × 32 in. (98.4 × 81.3 cm)
Inscriptions Signed (lower right); Inscribed en verso
Born 1896 in Lynn, MA
Marion Huse
In so many senses of the word, Marion Huse was a true trailblazer. She reached heights normally gate-kept from women of the era, founding and overseeing the Springfield Art School in Massachusetts from 1925-1940 and regionally supervising for the WPA from 1936-38. As an artist, her work exemplified the development of American art through the front half of the 20th century. Her early works presented a regionalist style, like in this painting here, but shifted and changed over the years, adopting an American Expressionist style in the 1950s. She was even an early pioneer of serigraphy in the fine arts, earning Paris’ first one-person serigraph show in 1947.
Died 1967 in Boston, MA
Major Collections:
Museum of Fine Art, Boston
Library of Congress
Fuller Museum of Art
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
