Marion Long

Marion Long RCA (1882 – 1970)[1] was a Canadian born artist, elected to the Royal Canadian Academy in 1922. She was a highly commissioned artist and often painted military portraits.[2]

Marion Long
Self portrait
Born1882 (1882)
Toronto, Ontario
Died1970 (aged 87–88)
Toronto, Ontario
NationalityCanadian
EducationOntario College of Art and Design, Art Students League of New York
Known forfigure and portrait painter in oil and pastel
MovementRealism and Impressionism

Biography

Long studied at OCAD University (then known as Ontario College of Art and Design), privately with Laura Muntz Lyall and Charles Hawthorne.[2] In New York she studied at the Art Students League from 1907-1908 with Robert Henri, William Merritt Chase, and Kenneth Hayes Miller.[2] Long opened her own studio in Toronto in 1913. She eventually occupied Studio One in the Studio Building when A. Y. Jackson went on active military service and Tom Thomson moved to the shack near the building.[3] In 1933 she was elected as a full member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.[4]

Memberships
  • Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, Associate, 1922; Academician, 1933
  • Ontario Society of Artists, 1916
  • Ontario Institute of Painters
  • Heliconian Club, President, 1919

Awards
  • received the King Haakon VII medal of liberation for services to Norway during World War II.[2][5]

References
  1. "Marion Long (1882 - 1970)". AskART. Retrieved 7 October 2017.
  2. "Long, Marion". Canadian Women Artists History Initiative. Retrieved 7 October 2017.
  3. MacDonald, Colin (1979). A Dictionary of Canadian Artists, vol. 4 (Third ed.). Ottawa: Paperbacks. p. 890. Retrieved 2020-09-16.
  4. Farr, Dorothy; Luckyj, Natalie (1975). From Women's Eyes: Women Painters in Canada. Kingston: Agnes Etherington Art Centre. p. 42.
  5. Bradfield 1970, p. 259.

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