Marion Long



Marion Long (1882 – 1970) was an artist, elected to the Royal Canadian Academy in 1922. She was often commissioned to paint portraits, sometimes of military figures. She is known for her urban scenes.

Biography
Long studied at OCAD University (then known as Ontario College of Art and Design), privately with Laura Muntz Lyall and Charles Hawthorne. In New York she studied at the Art Students League from 1907-1908 with Robert Henri, William Merritt Chase, and Kenneth Hayes Miller. Long opened her own studio in Toronto in 1913. She eventually occupied Studio One in the Studio Building when A. Y. Jackson went on active military service and Tom Thomson moved to the shack near the building. In 1915, Long contributed three drawings to The Canadian Magazine that provide a fresh interpretation of the First World War from a woman’s point of view, including Home on Furlough (1915), Looking at the War Pictures (1915), and Killed in Action (1915). In 1933 she was elected as a full member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.

Memberships

 * Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, Associate, 1922; Academician, 1933
 * Ontario Society of Artists, 1916
 * Ontario Institute of Painters
 * Heliconian Club, President, 1919

Awards

 * received the King Haakon VII medal of liberation for services to Norway during World War II.

Record sale price
At the Heffel Auction, April 2021, Marion Long`s Little Fruit Store, an 8 1/2 x 10 1/2 in. sketch, sold for $40,250.00 CAD.