Marion Wagschal (born 1943) is a feminist Canadian painter known for figurative work which sometimes refers to the

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and to her own personal history.A Dictionary of Canadian Artists, volumes 1-8 by Colin S. MacDonald, and volume 9 (online only), by Anne Newlands and Judith Parker National Gallery of Canada / Musée des beaux-arts du Canada

Career

She was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago in 1943; her German parents emigrated there from

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in 1939. In 1951, Wagschal immigrated to Canada with her family and settled in Montreal. In 1962, she received a Teaching Diploma from MacDonald College,

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, and in 1975, a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Sir George Williams University (later

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), Montreal. She taught painting and drawing at Concordia University for 37 years, and developed an innovative seminar/workshop entitled ''Women and Painting''. Her images are said to "bleed nostalgia and emotion" and concern the ravages of time on human flesh. A travelling

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titled ''Marion Wagschal: Portraits, Memories Fables'' was organized by Sarah Fillmore for the

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in 2014 and was shown at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in 2015. In 2017, the Musée d'art de Joliette held an exhibition of her work. Among the public galleries which have her paintings are the

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, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal,

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(Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island), the Robert McLaughlin Gallery (Oshawa, Ontario) and

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(Plattsburgh, New York).

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