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Marjorie Jane Reed

Marjorie Jane Reed (1915 - 1996) was active/lived in Arizona, California, Illinois.  Marjorie Reed is known for Stagecoach genre paintings, landscape.

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Born in Springfield, Illinois and raised in Los Angeles, Marjorie Reed gained a reputation for paintings of western scenes, particularly Butterfield Overland Stage coaches and other scenes of cowboys, horses and figures associated with the Overland Mail Route.  Sometimes she signed her paintings with men's names including Harvey Day and Fred Day.

At age three, she began art lessons from her father, Walter Stephen Reed, a commercial artist, whom she later assisted in the designing of Christmas cards and with illustrations for the Mickey Mouse Beverage Company, affiliated with Walt Disney.  In fact, she was so accomplished that shortly after, she was hired by Walt Disney Studios to do animation.  But she did not like the regimentation of that work.

In the mid-1930s, she studied at the Chouinard Art School and took lessons from Jack Wilkinson Smith, a renowned landscape painters who was a key artist in establishing the Biltmore Salon in L   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 17607 characters.]  Artist bio

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   Publications  Book References:  23
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23 Book References for Marjorie Jane Reed
Year Author Title Pages Color
2021 Peterson, Dr. Larry Len The American West Reimagined: Gems from the Coeur d'Alene Art Auction 528 Yes
2015 St. Gaudens, Maurine (Editor) Emerging from the Shadows: Volume Three, (L-R) A Survey Of Women Artists Working in California, 1860-1960 304 Yes
2012 Fahlman, Betsy; (Essay); Lonnie Pierson Dunbier, (Directory) Arizona's Pioneering Women Artists: Impressions of the Grand Canyon State Directory Listing of 479 Women Before 1945
(Exhibition catalog)
92 Yes
2010 Fillmore, Gary Canyon Magic Landmark Art from the Picerne Collection
(Exhibition catalog)
77 Yes
2008 Fillmore, Gary All Aboard: The Life and Work of Marjorie Reed 264 Yes
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2004 Eric Firestone Gallery Women Artists of the West 1904-2004
(Exhibition catalog)
22 Yes
2002 Hughes, Edan Milton Artists in California: 1786-1940 (Two Volumes)
Available For Sale.
1249 No
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1998 Kovinick, Phil; Marian Yoshiki-Kovinick An Encyclopedia of Women Artists of the American West 405 No
1989 Hughes, Edan Milton Artists in California, 1786-1940 637 No
1983 Reed, Marjorie The Butterfield Overland Stage in California 111 Yes
1980 Reed, Marjorie The Butterfield Overland Stage Through New Mexico and Texas 61 Yes
1979 Reed, Marjorie The Butterfield Overland Stage Across Arizona 51 Yes
1977 Harmsen, Dorothy; Bill Harmsen (Foreward) American Western Art: The Harmsen Collection 256 Yes
1976 Kovinick, Phil The Woman Artist in the American West, 1860-1960 59 Yes
1976 Samuels, Peggy and Harold The Illustrated Biographical Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West 549 No
1971 Pourade, Richard The Colorful Butterfield Overland Stage (Illustrations by Margery Reed 50 Yes
1968 Ainsworth, Ed; John Wayne (Foreward) The Cowboy in Art 242 Yes
1966 Pourade, Richard F The Colorful Butterfield Stage 20 Paintings by Marjorie Reed 48 Yes
1961 Ainsworth, Ed Painters of the Desert 111 Yes
Reed, Marjorie The Butterfield Overland Stage in Oklahoma, Arkansas and Missouri 51 Yes
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