Marion Long


Marion Long RCA (1882 – 1970)[1] was an artist, elected to the Royal Canadian Academy in 1922. She was often commissioned to paint portraits, sometimes of military figures.[2] She is known for her urban scenes.

Marion Long
Self portrait
Born1882 (1882)
Toronto, Ontario
Died1970 (aged 87–88)
Toronto, Ontario
EducationOntario College of Art and Design, Art Students League of New York
Known forfigure and portrait painter in oil and pastel
MovementRealism and Impressionism
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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 1915, Long contributed three drawings to The Canadian Magazine that provide a fresh interpretation of the First World War from a woman’s point of view, including Home on Furlough (1915), Looking at the War Pictures (1915), and Killed in Action (1915).[4] In 1933 she was elected as a full member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.[5]

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][6]

Record sale price

At the Heffel Auction, April 2021, Marion Long`s Little Fruit Store, an 8 1/2 x 10 1/2 in. sketch, sold for $40,250.00 CAD.[7]

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. Brandon, Laura (2021). War Art in Canada: A Critical History. Toronto: Art Canada Institute. ISBN 978-1-4871-0271-5.
  5. Farr, Dorothy; Luckyj, Natalie (1975). From Women's Eyes: Women Painters in Canada. Kingston: Agnes Etherington Art Centre. p. 42.
  6. Bradfield 1970, p. 259.
  7. "Marion Long, Little Fruit Store". www.heffel.com. Heffel auction. Retrieved 2021-05-05.

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