Discipline: Visual Art

Elizabeth Marran

Discipline: Visual Art
Region: Cambridge, MA
MacDowell Fellowships: 1993
Elizabeth Marran is a drawer, painter, and printmaker who moved to Boston in 1979 to pursue a career in art. In 1987 she came to UMass Boston where she continues to teach introductory and advanced courses in drawing and prints. Her work has been exhibited in national and international venues that include the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard Univeristy, the California Art Museum, The Rose Museum at Brandeis Univeristy, Real Art Ways in Hartford,CT. and Galerie 5020 in Salzburg Austria. Her work has received favorable notice, with 15 published reviews including a feature article in Art New England where an image from her solo exhibition at the OHT Gallery in Boston series was used for the cover of the August/September 2002 edition. Her work is in numerous collections including the New York Public Library, the Boston Public Library, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Albertina Museum in Vienna, The Museum der Moderne in Salzburg Austria, and the Harvard Art Museums.

Studios

Putnam

Elizabeth Marran worked in the Putnam studio.

The Graphics Studio (as it was originally named) was converted to its present use in 1972–1974 through a grant from the Putnam Foundation, and originally served the property as both a power house and pump house. Well water was pumped from a large cistern to Hillcrest, the Foreman’s Cottage, and the lower buildings closer to…

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