Marion Long
{{Infobox artist
| name = Marion Long
| image = Marion Long self portrait.jpg
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| caption = Self portrait
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| birth_date = {{Birth date text|1882}}
| birth_place = Toronto, Ontario
| death_date = {{Death year and age|1970|1882}}
| death_place = Toronto, Ontario
| nationality =
| training = Ontario College of Art and Design, Art Students League of New York
| movement = Realism and Impressionism
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| field = figure and portrait painter in oil and pastel
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File:Marion Long, A.R.C.A. (I0007885).jpg
Marion Long {{Post-nominals|country=CAN|RCA|size=100%}} (1882 – 1970){{cite web|title=Marion Long (1882 - 1970)|url=http://www.askart.com/artist/Marion_Long/11049740/Marion_Long.aspx|website=AskART|accessdate=7 October 2017}} was an artist, elected to the Royal Canadian Academy in 1922. She was often commissioned to paint portraits, sometimes of military figures. She is known for her urban scenes and portraits, landscapes and flower paintings.
Biography
Long studied at OCAD University (then known as Ontario College of Art and Design), privately with Laura Muntz Lyall and Charles Hawthorne. In New York she studied at the Art Students League from 1907 to 1908 with Robert Henri, William Merritt Chase, and Kenneth Hayes Miller.{{cite web|title=Long, Marion|url=http://cwahi.concordia.ca/sources/artists/displayArtist.php?ID_artist=33|website=Canadian Women Artists History Initiative|accessdate=7 October 2017}} 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.{{cite book |last1=MacDonald |first1=Colin |title=A Dictionary of Canadian Artists, vol. 4 |date=1979 |publisher=Paperbacks |location=Ottawa |pages=890 |edition=Third|url=https://search.library.utoronto.ca/search?Ntx=mode%20matchallpartial&Ntk=Anywhere&N=0&Ntt=colin%20macdonald%2C%20a%20dictionary%20of%20canadian%20artists%2C%20vol.%204&Nr=p_work_normalized:MacDonald%20Colin%20S%201925-%20dictionary%20of%20Canadian%20artists&uuid=29147465-707b-4e0a-924e-d6f8af784d9b|accessdate=2020-09-16}} 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).{{Cite book|last=Brandon|first=Laura|title=War Art in Canada: A Critical History|publisher=Art Canada Institute|year=2021|isbn=978-1-4871-0271-5|location=Toronto}} In 1933 she was elected as a full member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.{{cite book|last1=Farr|first1=Dorothy|last2=Luckyj|first2=Natalie|title=From Women's Eyes: Women Painters in Canada|date=1975|publisher=Agnes Etherington Art Centre|location=Kingston|pages=42}}
Memberships
- Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, Associate, 1922; Academician, 1933
- Ontario Society of Artists, 1916
- Ontario Institute of Painters
- Heliconian Club, President, 1919
Awards
Legacy
Long's work also was included in The Artist Herself, an exhibition co-curated by Alicia Boutilier and Tobi Bruce who also co-edited the book/catalogue.{{cite book |last1=Anderson |first1=Janice |title='Marion Long". The Artist Herself: Self-Portraits by Canadian Historical Artists |date=2015 |publisher=Agnes Etherington Art Centre/ Art Gallery of Hamilton |location=Kingston and Hamilton|p=82-84 |isbn=978-1-55339-407-5|url=https://library.gallery.ca/search~S1?/abruce%2C+tobi/abruce+tobi/1%2C1%2C16%2CB/frameset&FF=abruce+tobi+++++1965&1%2C%2C16 |access-date=5 April 2025}}
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.{{cite web |title=Marion Long, Little Fruit Store |url=https://www.heffel.com/Online/LotDetails_E?Request=iZTDNdl2DfJc8jRi4pFzNF4FyYcqe80krsL77dDV7HBH8r3K2ZHaFnNWM7ohcD9UNjArxvI3Ec0swyHZzoO8LtQNmxAc0TY7xl/QuXX9asKFBi7DTM69yoFZTLwTn9YmqjuGzYYUTuuu64iI6rLacEzl1pkWH81YtBeDPGhYG7r7x6wn0B75MFv7sCo9OFyKZNstTf3xnFBwNSYyTeg9HIjOb8YlI4rWNjVOI92SKnDZeL0bHfXcIw== |website=www.heffel.com |publisher=Heffel auction |access-date=2021-05-05}}
References
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Bibliography
- {{cite book |last1=Bradfield |first1=Helen |title=Art Gallery of Ontario: the Canadian Collection |date=1970 |publisher=McGraw Hill |location=Toronto |isbn=0070925046|url=https://search.library.utoronto.ca/search?N=0&Ntx=mode+matchallpartial&Nu=p_work_normalized&Np=1&Ntt=Helen%20Bradfield%2C%20canadian%20collection%20%2C%20art%20gallery%20of%20ontario&Ntk=Anywhere |accessdate=2020-08-04}}
- {{cite book |last1=Prakash |first1=A. K. |title=Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women Artists |date=2008 |publisher=Firefly|location=Toronto|url=http://library.gallery.ca/search~S1?/aprakash/aprakash/1%2C2%2C7%2CB/frameset&FF=aprakash+a+k&5%2C%2C6 |access-date=2021-11-06}}
External links
- [http://www.gallery.ca/en/see/collections/artist.php?iartistid=3353 National Gallery of Canada]
- [https://www.mutualart.com/Artist/Marion-Long/D8D9ED1C75A12F11 Images by Marion Long]
- Brandon, Laura. [https://www.aci-iac.ca/art-books/war-art-in-canada/ War Art in Canada: A Critical History]. Toronto: Art Canada Institute, 2021.
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Category:20th-century Canadian painters
Category:20th-century Canadian women artists
Category:OCAD University alumni