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Marguerite Thompson Zorach  American  1887 -1968
Born: Santa Rosa, California, United States 
Died: Brooklyn, New York, United States 
Studied: Academie de la Grande Chaumiere 1908
La Palette, Paris 1908 - 1911
Exhibited: Amory Show, 1913 
Salone d'Automne 
Societe des Artistes Independents 
Examples of Work: Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine 
J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville 
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 
Museum of Modern Art, New York City 
National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC 
Newark Museum, New Jersey 
Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC 
Massillon Museum, Massillon, Ohio 
Specialty: Painter
Textiles
Sculptor
Style/School: Modernism
Fauvism
Cubism
Subjects Known For: Color
Distortion
Memberships: New York Society of Women Artists 
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Marguerite Zorach
Born California, 1887
Died New York, 1968

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 hus... (More)


Marguerite Thompson Zorach was born in Santa Rosa, CA on Sept. 25, 1887. She was raised in Fresno and showed artistic promise at age three. A brilliant student, she was one of the first women admitted to Stanford Universit... (More)

Marguerite Zorach was a pioneer American Modernist and was one of the first artists to introduce Fauvism and Cubism to America (1910-20). She studied briefly at Stanford (1908) before moving to Paris to study at Grande Chaumie... (More)

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