Discipline: Visual Art

Marcia Marcus

Discipline: Visual Art
Region: New York, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1969
Marcia Marcus is an American figurative painter of portraits, self-portraits, still life, and landscape. Her work is owned by the Whitney Museum of American Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Williams College Museum of Art, and the Maier Museum of Art at Randolph College. In 1962-63 she was the recipient of a Fulbright fellowship to France. She taught at many institutions, including Purdue University; Moore College of Art and Design and Rhode Island School of Design.

Studios

Alexander

Marcia Marcus worked in the Alexander studio.

Originally designed to be a visual art gallery, this facility was built in memory of the late John White Alexander (1856-1915) and funded by Elizabeth Alexander and their son James. John White Alexander was highly regarded as a portrait painter and, in the early part of the 20th century, served…

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