A native of Summit, Mississippi, Marie Hull received her early art training at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1912 under Daniel Garber and Hugh Breckenridge. In 1917, she married a Jackson, Mississippi architect and began assisting him with architectural renderings. She continued her education by attending summer workshops in landscape and figure painting at the Colorado Springs Art Center. Hull also studied at the Art Students League in New York with Frank Vincent Dumond in 1922 and later took an extended study and work trip to Europe in 1929. During the 1930s, she concentrated on portraits and landscape views of black and white tenant farmers and sharecroppers in the rural South. Among these works, Negro Cabin on Elizabeth College is a somber vernacular scene showing an adult and child heading toward their home, perhaps at sunset, as suggested by the strong, light-and-dark contrasts of the environment and light. RS/NRS

Biography courtesy of The Charleston Renaissance Gallery, www.antiquesandfineart.com/charleston