 Marjorie Adams is primarily known as Marjorie McPhail Bonath
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An example of work by Marjorie Adams
Photo submitted by Wendy Weigman
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Biography from AskART:
| The following biography, submitted March 2006, is from Wendy Weigman, a relative of the artist.
Marjorie Bonath, a painter of portraits, figures, and landscapes, was
born Marjorie McPhail in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Her
father bought and sold hotels, and the family eventually ended up in
Seward, Alaska in 1916. Marjorie and her best friend, Pat
Williams,
from an original pioneer family, went to Seattle for High
School.
Marjorie had always pursued the arts and started lessons where
she
first met Harry Bonath in 1924.
By the early 1930s Marjorie had moved to Santa Barbara and started a
long association with Doug Parshall. She married Fred Weigman in 1935
and had a son in 1937 and continued painting, using the name of Marjorie Weigman.
Through these years she had many friends in the West Coast artist
community including Willard Cox, Louis Hughes, Harry Bonath, and
Maurice Logan. During her second marriage to a man whose last
name was Adams, Marjorie lived in the San Francisco area and painted as
Marjorie Adams.
After being widowed she visited Harry Bonath on her way to Anchorage, and they
married and settled in Seattle where she painted using the name of Marjorie Bonath.
She died in
Seattle, Washington in 1977.
Because of her multiple names, Marjorie's work remains quite scattered.
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