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Artist: Marguerite Zorach (1887 -1968) American

Title: Waterfall

Medium: Oil on Canvas, Signed lower right

Size: 19.5 x 15.5" Framed, 15.5 x 11.5

The complimentary colors of purple and yellow accented with bold green in the landscape mark the influences in this oil painting of the Fauvist palette. The simple rendering of environmental shapes is distinct and lend a textile quality to the scene. Zorach’s waterfall cuts a central path through the rocks as a focal point for the viewer. This unique landscape is finished with a sympathetic frame and signed by the famed American Modernist artist in the lower right.

Painter, weaver, graphic artist. Along with her husband, sculptor William Zorach, she was an innovator in the modernist movement in the United States. With her embroidered tapestries, she distinguished herself as an outstanding designer. Zorach was accepted into Stanford University in 1908. She travelled to study and exhibit in Paris, brushing shoulders with Picasso and others. She exhibited at the 1910 Societe des Artiste Independants and the 1911 Salon d'Automne, both renowned for their modernist themes. She was influenced by Matisse and Derain.

They were among the founding American modernists. In addition to finding inspiration from African art, they looked to other cultures and, perhaps most importantly, to American folk art. Establishing an ethos of individual expression that may have enabled the development of the first American-created international movement, Abstract Expressionism. There was a multiplicity of styles and subjects, individualistic or Fauvist, Cubist, color painters, Precisionism, and later Regionalism and Social Realism.