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name: Greenwood
vorname: Marion
wikidata-repräsentation: Q1899160
gnd-repräsentation: 124460909
biografische angaben: * Brooklyn, April 6, 1909, † Woodstock, New York, August 20, 1970. American painter and engraver. She was the younger sister of Grace Greenwood Ames. Greenwood visited the Art Students League of New York and at the Académie Colarossi in Paris. In New York, she furthermore was a student of Winold Reiss. Before she moved to Mexico, where she stood until 1936, she attended to lithography, oil and portrait painting.
Her mexican journey, starting in december 1932, was initiated by her intimate relationship to the writer and journalist Josephine Herbst (1892—1969), who had a strong influence on her leftist orientation, visible mainly in her mexican murals of 1935 and 1936 in the Abelardo Rodríguez market. The second person forming her as muralist (besides Diego Rivera whose work she knew already from the U.S. and who was formally directing the works in the market) was the texan Pablo O'Higgins. He trained and assisted her technically and arranged most of her commissions.
Greenwood's murals in Mexico were commissioned by the Mexican government (Departamiento del Distrito Federal), by a northern american hotel owner in Taxco and by the director of San Nicolás de Hidalgo university in Morelia, Michoán. They prompted commissions for other northern american artists such as Ryah Ludins and Marion Greenwood's sister Grace,
After her return to the United States she kept on painting murals for the Federal Art Project FPA until 1940, when she went to Europe. During World War II she exhibited with Associated American Artists in New York, worked as female war painter of the United States Army, and participated in a rehabilitation program for wounded soldiers of the Army Medical Department (AMEDD). In 1944 she gave her first single exhibition in New York, and visited India, China and other countries after 1946. She was guest professor of fine arts at University of Tennessee from 1954 to 1955, where she painted a mural at the university center.
(partly from: Oles, The Mexican Murals of Marion and Grace Greenwood, in: Felleman, Salus, Out of Context, 2004)
