Marguerite Zorach (1887–1968) was an American painter, printmaker and textile artist and an early figure in American modernism. Born in California, she studied art in Paris, where she encountered Fauvism, Cubism and other emerging approaches to art.
In 1912, she married sculptor and painter William Zorach. The following year, she exhibited in the landmark 1913 Armory Show in New York. The couple spent many summers in New England and eventually purchased a farm on Georgetown Island, Maine. The region’s landscapes, plants and animals frequently appeared in Zorach’s work.
Our cover features her 1917 watercolor New England Fall (Landscape Autumn). Zorach uses simplified shapes and strong color rather than offering a realistic portrayal. Reds, oranges and yellows move through the trees against areas of green and blue, while the curves of the hills carry the eye across the landscape. Painted more than a century ago, the work offers a colorful interpretation of a familiar New England scene—the countryside transformed by autumn.
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