Marion Huse

American (1896-1967)

Born in Lynn, Massachusetts in 1896, printmaker, painter and commercial artist Marion Huse studied at the New School of Design in Boston under Douglas John Connah, the Carnegie Institute of Art and Technology with Henry Salem Hubbell and Eugene Savage and under Charles Hawthorne at his Cape Cod School of Art in Provincetown. In 1925, Huse founded the Springfield School of Art where she taught and was an administrator until 1940. Huse was appointed as a non-relief artist under the WPA: New Deal Federal Arts Project in the 1930’s.

In addition to participating in exhibitions at the Springfield Arts League, Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts, Salons of America, Albany Institute of History and Art and in galleries throughout Holland, Belgium and France, Huse is credited with having the first one-person show of serigraphs in Paris in 1947. Her work is held in the permanent collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton; Tel Aviv Museum, Israel and in the United States State Department and Library of Congress, Washington DC.