Discipline: Literature

Marion Canby

Discipline: Literature
MacDowell Fellowships: 1934
Marion Canby (1885-1974) was a poet and the widow of Henry Seidel Canby, founder and editor of the Saturday Review of Literature. In 1938, Mrs. Canby published a 162‐page volume of poetry, entitled On My Way. In a review in The New York Times, M. E. Walker called it “not merely a collection of miscellaneous poems, but well‐ordered and well‐thought out idea expressed in poetry.”

Studios

Star

Marion Canby worked in the Star studio.

Funded by Alpha Chi Omega, a national fraternity founded in 1885, Star Studio — built in 1911–1912 — was the first studio given to the residency by an outside organization. To this day, Alpha Chi sorority pledges learn the story of Star Studio and its role in supporting American arts and letters. Beginning as a nicely proportioned…

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