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Marjorie Jane Reed

Marjorie Jane Reed (1915 - 1996) was active/lived in Arizona, California, Illinois.  Marjorie Reed is known for Stagecoach genre paintings, landscape.

Born in Springfield, Illinois and raised in Los Angeles, Marjorie Reed gained a reputation for paintings of western scenes, particularly Butterfield Overland Stage coaches and other scenes of cowboys, horses and figures associated with the Overland Mail Route.  Sometimes she signed her paintings with men's names including Harvey Day and Fred Day.

At age three, she began art lessons from her father, Walter Stephen Reed, a commercial artist, whom she later assisted in the designing of Christmas cards and with illustrations for the Mickey Mouse Beverage Company, affiliated with Walt Disney.  In fact, she was so accomplished that shortly after, she was hired by Walt Disney Studios to do animation.  But she did not like the regimentation of that work.

In the mid-1930s, she studied at the Chouinard Art School and took lessons from Jack Wilkinson Smith, a renowned landscape painters who was a key artist in establishing the Biltmore Salon in L   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 17607 characters.]  Artist bio

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