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Marguerite at 10th Street Studio with Dahlov
Marguerite Zorach, 1887-1968
Marguerite Zorach is best known for her paintings and textiles, but she also made prints that focus on domestic subjects, such as her family and friends. As one of the artists who brought Cubism and Fauvism to the United States after several years of European study, Zorach reveals her interest in the structure of her environment in this stark black-and-white print. Sternly modernist in its staccato rhythms and dense patterning, the composition foregrounds a strong vertical image of the artist herself, with her daughter Dahlov and the family dog cavorting beneath a small table. Zorach was the president of the New York Society of Women Artists around the time that she made this linocut, and she rebuked the art world for not championing women's work. In 1925, she wrote, "I am certain that had I not had an artist husband, and had I tried to exhibit on my own, I would have had all the difficulties."
Linocut, 1927 |