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| | Born in an assay office in Chloride, a small Arizona mining town, on Nov. 11, 1899. Artistically inclined at an early age, Marjorie Perry grew up in San Francisco. Upon graduation from Polytechnic High School, she studied at UC Berkeley for two years and, after marrying Frank Close in 1920, spent two years at the AIC. In the late 1920s she worked as a fashion illustrator for local stores. Abandoning commercial art in the 1940s, she studied with Matteo Sandona and Thomas Leighton. Although she designed furniture, jewelry, lampshades, and furnishings, her forte was trompe l'oeil still lifes. She juried many local shows after 1959 and lectured at public schools. Mrs. Close died in San Francisco on Sept. 8, 1978. Exh: Calif. State Fair, 1967 (3rd prize); Cannes, France, 1973 (1st prize); SWA, 1967 (2nd prize), 1976 (best of show). In: Frye Museum (Seattle). | Source:
Edan Hughes, "Artists in California, 1786-1940"
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