Biography
Born Marguerite Thompson in Santa Rosa, California in 1887, Zorach ventured to Paris to study painting, where in 1911 she met her future husband, William Zorach. The two of them married and moved to New York in 1912 and soon after their works were exhibited in the landmark 1913 Armory Show. Marguerite's painting was among the work that caught the critics' eyes, being noted by one for its extreme modernity. The Zorachs spent their summers in New Hampshire, where Marguerite took up the White Mountains as a subject. A set of beautifully hand-watercolored transfer lithographs depicting these mountains is in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art.