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Marjorie Helen Thomas

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Marjorie Helen Thomas (1885 - 1978) was active/lived in Arizona, Massachusetts.  Marjorie Thomas is known for Indian genre, animal and desert scene painting, illustration.

Born in Newton Center, Massachusetts, Marjorie Thomas became a homesteader in Arizona, calling herself an "artistic pioneer" because of her devotion to recording the changing life and landscape in the Salt River Valley.

She grew up in the Boston area and graduated from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston where she was a student of Edmund Tarbell, Philip Hale, and Frank Benson.  She also studied with Louis Kronberg and John Palmer Wicker.  She exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in 1924 and 1928.

In 1909, she moved to Arizona with her mother for her brother's health, and settled in Paradise Valley, adjacent to Scottsdale, and she, her mother and brother each homesteaded 160 acres.  She, with little agricultural background, quickly adapted.  Her brother died in 1915, but she continued to live in the area, maintaining a home on one acre for many years.  Eventually she moved into Scottsdale and spent her summers in Massach   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2532 characters.]  Artist bio

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   Publications  Book References:  18
Magazine References:  2

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2 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Marjorie Helen Thomas
Magazine Article Date Author Color
Scottsdale Life Marjorie Thomas: Painting Scottsdal January 2003 Fudala, Joan C No
American Art Review A Century of Arizona Women Artists February 2001 Robbins, Carolyn C. Yes
18 Book References for Marjorie Helen Thomas
Year Author Title Pages Color
2012 Fahlman, Betsy; (Essay); Lonnie Pierson Dunbier, (Directory) Arizona's Pioneering Women Artists: Impressions of the Grand Canyon State Directory Listing of 479 Women Before 1945
(Exhibition catalog)		 92 Yes
2012 Fillmore, Gary Shadows on the Mesa: Artists of the Painted Desert and Beyond 288 Yes
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Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)		 The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2004 Eric Firestone Gallery Women Artists of the West 1904-2004
(Exhibition catalog)		 22 Yes
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1998 Kovinick, Phil; Marian Yoshiki-Kovinick An Encyclopedia of Women Artists of the American West 405 No
1995 Trenton, Patricia (Editor); Sandra E'Emilio, Erika Doss (et all) Independent Spirits: Women Painters of the American West 1890-1945
(Exhibition catalog)		 304 Yes
1991 D'Emilio, Sandra; Suzan Campbell Visions & Visionaries Art and Artists of the Santa Fe Railway 147 Yes
1989 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
(Exhibition catalog)		 538 No
1986 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers 1081 No
1985 Dawdy, Doris Artists of the American West: Three Volumes A Biographical Dictionary 1184 No
1985 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947 707 No
1985 Petteys, Chris with Hazel Gustow, Ferris Olin and Verna Ritchie Dictionary of Women Artists: An International Dictionary of Women Artists Born Before 1900 851 No
1984 Marlor, Clark S The Society of Independent Artists Exhibition Record 1917-1944
(Exhibition catalog)		 600 No
1980 Bermingham, Peter The New Deal in the Southwest: Arizona and New Mexico
(Exhibition catalog)		 67 No
1976 Samuels, Peggy and Harold The Illustrated Biographical Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West 549 No
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
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