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Preview image of work. oil on canvas,  The Family Evening 9092

1979.77

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The Family Evening

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Artist

Marguerite Thompson Zorach (Santa Rosa, California, 1887 - 1968, Bath, Maine)

Title

The Family Evening

Creation Date

ca. 1924

Century

20th century

Dimensions

34 1/8 in. x 44 1/8 in. (86.68 cm x 112.08 cm)

Object Type

painting

Creation Place

North America, United States

Medium and Support

oil on canvas

Credit Line

Gift of Dahlov Ipcar and Tessim Zorach

Copyright

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Accession Number

1979.77

Marguerite Thompson Zorach was among the first women admitted to Stanford University. She left before graduating, however, to pursue an artistic education in France, where she met her husband, fellow artist William Zorach. In Paris she absorbed the lessons of modernism gleaned from artists such as Henri Matisse, André Derain, and the Fauvists, a group of painters that favored exuberant color, modern design, and expressive brushwork. She and her husband eventually settled in New York, where they exhibited in the landmark 1913 International Exhibition of Modern Art, colloquially known as the Armory Show. Following a visit to the home of sculptor Gaston Lachaise in Georgetown, Maine, in the summer of 1922, the Zorachs purchased a nearby property. It was there that she painted The Family Evening.