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A signed original lithograph by Marion Greenwood title "Reverie." Limited edition. At the age of 23, brilliant and beautiful Marion Greenwood was the first American woman to execute a mural on commission for a foreign government. Mexico invited her to decorate its public buildings, its university, its hotels. The New York-based girl found in the lush Mexican and Indian life a responsive chord that her paintings, murals and lithographs so warmly echo. Diego Rivera and Orozco were her menttors. Mexico’s former president Lazaro Cardenas publicly lauded Miss Greenwood’s artistic contribution to his country upon her completion of frescoes in the University of San Nicolas Hidalgo. Born with inherited artistic talent, she abandoned the usual schooling when very young to learn to paint in New York and Paris.
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Returning, she won scholarships, exhibitions, applause of the art world and the public. Widely traveled, Miss Greenwood found inspiration for her painting from China to the West Indies. Her work won numerous prizes and awards, including the National Second Prize at Carnegie, and the Benjamin Altman First Prize of the National Academy. Her most important works are on permanent display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the Enclyclopedia Britannica, the Library of Congress and many other noted public and private collections both here and abroad. She was elected to full membership in the National Academy.
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