{{Infobox artist | name = Marion Long | image = Marion Long self portrait.jpg | imagesize = | caption = Self portrait | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date text|1882}} | birth_place = Toronto, Ontario | death_date = {{Death year and age|1970|1882}} | death_place = Toronto, Ontario | nationality = | training = Ontario College of Art and Design, Art Students League of New York | movement = Realism and Impressionism | works = | patrons = | influenced by = | influenced = | awards = | field = figure and portrait painter in oil and pastel }} thumb|Marion Long, A.R.C.A., 192- or 193-
'''Marion Long''' {{Post-nominals|country=CAN|RCA|size=100%}} (1882 – 1970)<ref name="AskART " >{{cite web|title=Marion Long (1882 - 1970)|url=http://www.askart.com/artist/Marion_Long/11049740/Marion_Long.aspx|website=AskART|accessdate=7 October 2017}}</ref> was an artist, elected to the Royal Canadian Academy in 1922. She was often commissioned to paint portraits, sometimes of military figures.<ref name="concordia " /> She is known for her urban scenes and portraits, landscapes and flower paintings.<ref name="anderson " />
== Biography== Long studied at OCAD University (then known as Ontario College of Art and Design), privately with Laura Muntz Lyall and Charles Hawthorne.<ref name="concordia " /> In New York she studied at the Art Students League from 1907 to 1908 with Robert Henri, William Merritt Chase, and Kenneth Hayes Miller.<ref name="concordia " >{{cite web|title=Long, Marion|url=http://cwahi.concordia.ca/sources/artists/displayArtist.php?ID_artist=33|website=Canadian Women Artists History Initiative|accessdate=7 October 2017}}</ref> Long opened her own studio in Toronto in 1913. She eventually occupied Studio One in the Studio Building when A. Y. Jackson went on active military service and Tom Thomson moved to the shack near the building.<ref>{{cite book |last1=MacDonald |first1=Colin |title=A Dictionary of Canadian Artists, vol. 4 |date=1979 |publisher=Paperbacks |location=Ottawa |pages=890 |edition=Third|url=https://search.library.utoronto.ca/search?Ntx=mode%20matchallpartial&Ntk=Anywhere&N=0&Ntt=colin%20macdonald%2C%20a%20dictionary%20of%20canadian%20artists%2C%20vol.%204&Nr=p_work_normalized:MacDonald%20Colin%20S%201925-%20dictionary%20of%20Canadian%20artists&uuid=29147465-707b-4e0a-924e-d6f8af784d9b|accessdate=2020-09-16}}</ref> In 1915, Long contributed three drawings to ''The Canadian Magazine'' that provide a fresh interpretation of the First World War from a woman's point of view, including ''Home on Furlough'' (1915), ''Looking at the War Pictures'' (1915), and ''Killed in Action'' (1915).<ref>{{Cite book|last=Brandon|first=Laura|title=War Art in Canada: A Critical History|publisher=Art Canada Institute|year=2021|isbn=978-1-4871-0271-5|location=Toronto}}</ref> In 1933 she was elected as a full member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.<ref name="FromWomensEyes " >{{cite book|last1=Farr|first1=Dorothy|last2=Luckyj|first2=Natalie|title=From Women's Eyes: Women Painters in Canada|date=1975|publisher=Agnes Etherington Art Centre|location=Kingston|pages=42}}</ref>
==Memberships== *Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, Associate, 1922; Academician, 1933 *Ontario Society of Artists, 1916 *Ontario Institute of Painters *<!-- Deleted image removed: thumb|Portrait of a woman by Marion Long -->Heliconian Club, President, 1919
== Awards == *received the King Haakon VII medal of liberation for services to Norway during World War II.<ref name="concordia " />{{sfn|Bradfield|1970|p=259}}
==Legacy== Long's work also was included in ''The Artist Herself'', an exhibition co-curated by Alicia Boutilier and Tobi Bruce who also co-edited the book/catalogue.<ref name="anderson " >{{cite book |last1=Anderson |first1=Janice |title='Marion Long". The Artist Herself: Self-Portraits by Canadian Historical Artists |date=2015 |publisher=Agnes Etherington Art Centre/ Art Gallery of Hamilton |location=Kingston and Hamilton|page=82-84 |isbn=978-1-55339-407-5|url=https://library.gallery.ca/search~S1?/abruce%2C+tobi/abruce+tobi/1%2C1%2C16%2CB/frameset&FF=abruce+tobi+++++1965&1%2C%2C16 |access-date=5 April 2025}}</ref>
== Record sale price == At the Heffel Auction, April 2021, Marion Long's ''Little Fruit Store'', an 8 1/2 x 10 1/2 in. sketch, sold for $40,250.00 CAD.<ref>{{cite web |title=Marion Long, Little Fruit Store |url=https://www.heffel.com/Online/LotDetails_E?Request=iZTDNdl2DfJc8jRi4pFzNF4FyYcqe80krsL77dDV7HBH8r3K2ZHaFnNWM7ohcD9UNjArxvI3Ec0swyHZzoO8LtQNmxAc0TY7xl/QuXX9asKFBi7DTM69yoFZTLwTn9YmqjuGzYYUTuuu64iI6rLacEzl1pkWH81YtBeDPGhYG7r7x6wn0B75MFv7sCo9OFyKZNstTf3xnFBwNSYyTeg9HIjOb8YlI4rWNjVOI92SKnDZeL0bHfXcIw== |website=www.heffel.com |publisher=Heffel auction |access-date=2021-05-05}}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}}
== Bibliography == *{{cite book |last1=Bradfield |first1=Helen |title=Art Gallery of Ontario: the Canadian Collection |date=1970 |publisher=McGraw Hill |location=Toronto |isbn=0070925046 |url=https://search.library.utoronto.ca/search?N=0&Ntx=mode+matchallpartial&Nu=p_work_normalized&Np=1&Ntt=Helen%20Bradfield%2C%20canadian%20collection%20%2C%20art%20gallery%20of%20ontario&Ntk=Anywhere |accessdate=2020-08-04 |archive-date=2020-06-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200607002632/https://search.library.utoronto.ca/search?N=0&Ntx=mode+matchallpartial&Nu=p_work_normalized&Np=1&Ntt=Helen%20Bradfield,%20canadian%20collection%20,%20art%20gallery%20of%20ontario&Ntk=Anywhere |url-status=dead }} *{{cite book |last1=Prakash |first1=A. K. |title=Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women Artists |date=2008 |publisher=Firefly|location=Toronto|url=http://library.gallery.ca/search~S1?/aprakash/aprakash/1%2C2%2C7%2CB/frameset&FF=aprakash+a+k&5%2C%2C6 |access-date=2021-11-06}}
==External links== *[http://www.gallery.ca/en/see/collections/artist.php?iartistid=3353 National Gallery of Canada] *[https://www.mutualart.com/Artist/Marion-Long/D8D9ED1C75A12F11 Images by Marion Long] *Brandon, Laura. ''[https://www.aci-iac.ca/art-books/war-art-in-canada/ War Art in Canada: A Critical History]''. Toronto: Art Canada Institute, 2021.
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