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Celebrated for her strong sense of color and design in painting and textile, California-born Marguerite Thompson Zorach belonged to America’s pioneering generation of avant-garde artists. Along with her husband, William, she exhibited her post-impressionist and fauve-inspired paintings in a number of important exhibitions of modern art, including the landmark 1913 Armory Show. This striking painting from 1921—an intimate portrait of Marguerite (at left) and her younger sister, Edith, in a dynamic cityscape of fragmented buildings—is representative of the family themes that run throughout her career. Its simplified forms and angularity reveal the artist’s contemporary study of American folk art as well as Egyptian sculpture.

Object Number: 2013.194 Department: American Art Artist: Marguerite Zorach, American, 1887 - 1968 (Artist) Title: Two Sisters- Marguerite and Her Sister Edith Date: 1921 Medium: oil on canvas  Credit Line: J. Harwood and Louise B. Cochrane Fund for American Art  Dimensions: Unframed: 30 × 25 in. (76.2 × 63.5 cm) Framed: 32 7/8 × 27 7/8 in. (83.5 × 70.8 cm)