Dancer

Marion Greenwood

Her many years of portraying people in murals, prints, and paintings gave Marion Greenwood an eye for posture and physical expression, and her portrait of a young dancer at rest in a pose of sensuous relaxation invites admiration without the burden of overt sexuality or theatrical caricaturizing. Greenwood is an artist who simply appreciates the human form.

Greenwood’s work focused on laborers, the poor, minorities, and anyone living on the fringes of society as the world grappled with two World Wars and the Great Depression. She worked for the WPA as a muralist trained by Diego Riviera in Mexico, and in World War II was America’s only female war-artist correspondent, assigned by the Army Medical Department to capture the rehabilitation units and the care of wounded soldiers. Her full life took her to Paris, China, Burma, Haiti, and throughout the U.S.

Greenwood would go on to work, exhibit, and teach throughout the U.S. and abroad.