Marion Huse

Marion Huse (1896-1967) was an American artist, known for painting and printmaking

Marion Huse
Marion Huse, c. 1946
Born1896 (1896)
Lynn, Massachusetts
Died1967 (aged 70–71)
NationalityAmerican
EducationNew School of Design, Carnegie Institute of Art and Technology
Known forPrintmaking
Spouse(s)Robert Barstow

Biography

Huse was born in 1896 in Lynn, Massachusetts.[1] She studied at the New School of Design in Boston and the Carnegie Institute of Art and Technology.[2]

Huse ran the Springfield Art School in Massachusetts from 1925 through 1940. In the 1930s she worked as an artist for the Works Progress Administration[3] eventually becoming supervisor for the western part of Vermont.[4] She was married to Robert Barstow and led a peripatetic life, traveling around the United States and Europe.[4][5]

Huse was included in the 1947 and 1951 Dallas Museum of Fine Arts exhibitions of the National Serigraph Society.[6][7]

Her work is included in the collections of the Fuller Museum of Art, the Library of Congress, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Victoria and Albert Museum.[4]

Huse died in 1967.[2] Her papers are in the Archives of American Art at the Smithsonian Institution.[5]

References
  1. "Marion Huse". Vose Galleries. Retrieved 5 January 2020.
  2. "Marion Huse". AskART. Retrieved 5 January 2020.
  3. Morrison, Richard C. (1938). "Federal art in New England, 1933-1937; arranged by the officers of the Federal art projects in New England, in cooperation with New England museums. With a history of the art projects in New England". Internet archive. Retrieved 5 January 2020.
  4. "Marion Huse papers, 1884-1988". Archives of American Art. Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 5 January 2020.
  5. Dallas Museum of Fine Arts (1947). "National Serigraph Exhibition, January 15–February 15, 1947 [Checklist]". The Portal to Texas History. Retrieved 4 January 2020.
  6. Dallas Museum of Fine Arts (1951). "National Serigraph Society Exhibition, April 1–May 2, 1951 [Checklist]". The Portal to Texas History. Retrieved 4 January 2020.
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