Pauline by Marion Long

Marion Long - Pauline - 1924, oil on canvas, 45" x 67"

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Marion Long was born in Toronto in 1882. She received art training at the Ontario College of Art and private lessons with G.A. Reid and Laura Muntz Lyall. Later she studied at the Art Students League in New York, under Robert Henri and William M. Chase and at Provincetown, Massachusetts, with Charles Hawthorne. Back in Toronto, for a time, she occupied a studio in the Studio Building. Well-known as a portrait painter, she received commissions to paint many prominent Canadians. During World War II, she painted portraits of men and women in the Canadian and Norwegian armed forces. She was a member of the Ontario Society of Artists, the Ontario Institute of Painters, and the Royal Canadian Academy. She died in Toronto in 1970.