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)
Classification
Paintings
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.
