Marilyn Bendell (September 19, 1921 – May 18, 2003) was an American impressionist painter.''Southwest Art'', September 1, 2003

Life

She was born in

Grand Ledge, Michigan Grand Ledge is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan. The city lies mostly within Eaton County, though a small portion extends into Clinton County to the north. The city sits above the Grand River 12.7 miles (20.4 kilometers) west of downtown Lan ...

. She was training to become a concert pianist, but at age 17, decided to pursue painting instead. She studied painting at the

American Academy of Art The American Academy of Art College is a private art school in Chicago, Illinois. It was founded in 1923 for the education of fine and commercial arts students. The school's Bill L. Parks Gallery is open to the public and features exhibitions ...

in Chicago and privately with Arnold E. Turtle (1892–1954). She became an artist member of the Chicago Galleries Association, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of the Arts in 1965. About 1960, she moved to

Longboat Key, Florida Longboat Key is a town in Manatee and Sarasota counties along the central west coast of the U.S. state of Florida, located on and coterminous with the barrier island of the same name. Longboat Key is south of Anna Maria Island, between Sarasot ...

, where she ran an art school on Cortez Road with her husband George Burrows. She painted figural compositions,

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s, and abstract compositions. Her final move was to

Nambé Pueblo, New Mexico Nambé Oweenge Pueblo ( ; tew, Nambé Oweengé / , ) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Santa Fe County, New Mexico, Santa Fe County, New Mexico, and is also a federally recognized tribe of Native Americans in the United States, Native American ...

(20 miles from Santa Fe) in 1983, where she continued to give private instruction until 1993. Thereafter, she pursued painting exclusively, until her death on May 18, 2003, at age 81. Her New Mexico oeuvre consists primarily of impressionistic paintings of Native Americans and other women. Her paintings are generally signed "Bendell" without a date. Her son and student, David Hyams, is also a painter of the Santa Fe School.

Footnotes

References

* Art of the West, ''Art of the West Guidebook of Western Artists'', 2001 Edition, Minnetonka, MN, Art of the West Magazine, p. 88. * Collins, Jim L., ''Women Artists in America: Eighteenth Century to Present'', Chattanooga, Tennessee, 1973, p. 426. * Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975, New Providence, NJ, Marquis Who's Who, 1999, p. 3724. * McGowan, Alison C. (Editor), ''Who's Who in American Art, 25th Edition'', New Providence, NJ, Marquis Who's Who, 2004, p. 1512. * ''Southwest Art'', In memoriam, September 1, 2003.

External links

Marilyn Bendell on Artnet

Marilyn Bendell in AskART
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