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MARION MORHAM GRIGSBY

NATIONALITY: British / Canadian

DATES: 1902 - 1984

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Marion Morham was born in London, England, in 1902. She was a pupil of the Willesden School of Art, and the Polytechnic School of Art, in London, England. She also studied at the University of London, and received a teaching diploma from the London Board of Education in 1926. She exhibited with the Sketch Club in Rotherham, England in 1927, and at the Laing Art Gallery in Newcastle-on-Tyne in 1930 and 1931. Her artwork included drawing, watercolour painting, and modeling.

After arriving in Vancouver she exhibited her work in the annual B.C. Artists exhibitions in 1931, 1938, 1939, and from 1941 to 1946, all held at the Vancouver Art Gallery. She had a solo exhibition at the Gallery in 1938, of watercolours, drawing, sculpture, and prints, and another solo exhibition in 1948. She also exhibited work at the Gallery in the 1944 British Columbia At Work exhibition. She showed her work with the B.C. Society of Fine Arts in 1938, 1944, and 1945. She was on a list titled "Leading Vancouver Artists," provided to the Labour Arts Guild on April 10, 1946 by the Vancouver Art Gallery to assist in the Guild's call for entries to the second annual B.C. At Work exhibition. Morham was married to A.S. Grigsby, the Art Gallery's Business Manager, at the time.

Grigsby submitted three drawings and a linocut to the 1949 B.C. Graphic exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery, only the linocut was selected for the exhibition. She was a member of the West Vancouver Sketch Club from 1948 to 1976. Her 1943 watercolour Shipyard Workers on a Ferry was included in a "Tribute to Lenningrad" from Canada and was on display in Russia. She has taught art in schools from Summerland to Salmon Arm for 22 years. She later lived in Westwold, B.C. and passed away in 1984.