Description MARGUERITE ZORACH: AN ART-FILLED LIFE Marguerite Thompson Zorach (1887-1968) was a progressive American modernist, and art permeated every aspect of her life. She studied art in Paris, exhibited her work there, and travelled throughout Europe, the Near East and Asia, gaining insight into global cultures and design. She met artist William Zorach in Paris, and in 1912 the couple married and made their home in Greenwich Village, New York City, and later in Bronx, New York. By 1923 they had purchased a summer home in George Maine, and later with their family established deep roots within the state. This catalogue features essays by American art historians Betsy Fahlman and Cynthia Fowler, who, respectively, consider the New Deal work of Marguerite Zorach, emphasizing the “mural sensibility” of her tapestries and later paintings; and the Zorach tapestries as precursor to the fiber arts movement of the 1960s. Associate Curator Jane Bianco, exhibition organizer, discusses how Zorach’s design intelligence flowed between professional and domestic realms.
