Marion Greenwood

Painter and printmaker was born on April 6, 1909 in Brooklyn, New York.  She won a scholarship at the age of fifteen to Art Students League where she studied with John Sloan, and George Bridgman.  She also worked with Emil Ganso, learning lithography and Alexander Archipenko learning mosaics.  After receiving a large payment for a portrait commission, she traveled to Europe and studied at the Academie Colarossi in Paris.  Throughout her life she was a world traveler, in 1932 she was in Mexico where she met Pablo O’Higgins who encouraged her to try fresco mural painting.  She received a commission from the Mexican government to paint a mural at the University of San Nicolas Hidalgo in Morelia.  She also painted murals for the WPA during the depression.  She was one of two women artists appointed as war correspondents during WWII.

She taught at the University of Tennessee and was an artist in residence at Syracuse University.  Throughout her career she received numerous awards and was active in artist organizations. Her work is in many  museum collections including Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts Boston.