14 Facts About Marguerite Zorach

Marguerite Zorach was an American Fauvist painter, textile artist, and graphic designer, and was an early exponent of modernism in America.

Marguerite Zorach won the 1920 Logan Medal of the Arts.

Marguerite Zorach started to draw at a very young age and her parents provided her with an education that was heavily influenced by the liberal arts, including music lessons in elementary school, and four years of Latin at Fresno High School.

Marguerite Zorach was one of a small group of women admitted to Stanford University in 1908.

Marguerite Zorach exhibited at the 1910 Societe des Artistes Independants, and the 1911 Salon d'Automne, both renowned for their modernist themes.

Marguerite Zorach began to produce brightly colored Fauvist landscapes with thick black outlines.

Marguerite Zorach served as the president of the modernist New York Society of Women Artists in the mid-1920s.

Marguerite Zorach created mainly embroideries or batiks that stylistically resembled her Fauvist paintings.

Marguerite Zorach's embroideries were first shown in New York in 1918, to a positive response.

Marguerite Zorach's works were popular and interesting to the public, but art critics gave them mixed reviews because of the low status of embroidery within the fine arts.

Many times the sales of Marguerite Zorach's textiles are what kept the family from poverty.

Marguerite Zorach took great delight in making clothes for her husband and children, although they were not always the conventional style of the times.

Marguerite Zorach continued to be a prolific artist until the end of her life.

Marguerite Zorach was a talented painter who was influential in progressing artistic Modernism in the United States.