Marguerite Zorach

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Marguerite Zorach (née Thompson) (1887 - 1968) was an American fauvist painter, textile artist and graphic designer and was an early exponent of modernism in America.

Marguerite was born in Santa Rosa, California. She travelled to France where she attended the post-impressionist school La Palette and associated with Pablo Picasso and expatriate Gertrude Stein. In 1912 she married sculptor William Zorach and they moved back to the United States living in New York and spending summers in New England. Marguerite continued to paint and began to work with textiles, using embroidery and batik. In 1964 Zorach received a D.F.A. from Bates College.