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| Marie Isle Delleney was known primarily as a teacher but was regarded as a very capable painter. Her work "Houses, Provincetown", exhibited in 1939 in the American Art Today Exhibition at the New York World's Fair, was selected for purchase by the exhibition governing committee.
Delleney was born in Coleman, Texas where she received her primary education. She was a student of Wilma Powell before attending the College of Industrial Arts (now Texas Woman's University), Denton, Texas. She began her teaching career at Stephen F. Austin State Teachers College, Nacogdoches, Texas. She received her master of arts degree from Columbia University in 1927. In addition, Delleney taught at Texas Technological College, Lubbock, Texas (1927-29), and at the Texas State College for Women (1929-54).
Delleney was a student of Charles Martin in Provincetown, Massachusetts and studied summers at Columbia University (advanced studies 1932). Additional studies at Harvard University (Carnegie Fellowship 1938), and at Art Center, University of Iowa City. Delleney died in 1967 in Denton, Texas.
Memberships included Carnegie Scholarship Group, Harvard University; Denton Art League; Southern States Art League; Texas Fine Arts Association and the Texas Printmakers. Exhibitions included Texas Centennial Exposition, Dallas Texas; Annual Texas Artists Exhibition, Fort Worth, Texas; National Exhibition of American Art, Rockefeller Center, New York; Independent Spirits: Women Painters of the American West, 1890-1945, and the Autry Museum of Western Heritage, Los Angeles (1995).
Source:
John and Deborah Powers, "Texas Painters, Sculptors, and Graphic Artists"
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