Marion Lucille Humfeld
- BORN
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December 15, 1900
Kansas City, Missouri
- DIED
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January 22, 1995
Balitmore, Maryland
- EDUCATION
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Art Students League
New York, New YorkUniversity of Missouri-Columbia
Columbia, Missouri
Marion L. Humfeld was born on December 15, 1900, in Kansas City, Missouri. Humfeld studied art at the University of Missouri and graduated in 1923. After graduation, she began her career as a teacher at the Sunset Hill School in Kansas City during the 1930s. She moved to New York City and studied art at the Art Students League. She was primarily a landscape painter.
In 1942, Humfeld received her master’s of art from the University of Missouri and taught there until 1951. In 1952, she was awarded a Fulbright grant to teach in India as an exchange teacher lecturing at schools in Surat, Bombay and Delhi. In 1953, Humfeld returned to the U.S. and settled in Baltimore, Maryland. There she was chairman of fine arts at Forest Park High School. She retired from teaching in the 1970s. In 1982, she published an article of her memories of family trips to the Ozarks in the Kansas City Star titled An Ozarks Diary.
Marion L. Humfeld died on January 22, 1995, in Baltimore.
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References
Artist clippings file is available at:
“Marion Humfeld: Artist File,” Missouri Valley Special Collections, Kansas City Public Library, Kansas City, Missouri.
Bibliography
Select Sources
Sam Blain, “Research on Missouri Artists,” five binders of documented Missouri artists.
“Marion Lucille Humfeld,” Find A Grave, accessed October 25, 2021,
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/146407198/marion-lucille-humfeld.
“U.S. School Yearbooks, 1900-1999 for Marion Lucille Humfeld,” Ancestry, accessed October 21, 2021.
“Marion Lucille Humfeld,” Kansas City Star, January 28, 1995, 35.
“Humfeld, Marion L.,” in Clark S. Marlor, The Salons of America, 1922-1936 (Madison: Sound View Press, 1991), 114.
“Humfeld, Marion L.,” in Clark S. Marlor, The Society of Independent Artists: The Exhibition Record 1917-1944 (Park Ridge, NJ: Noyes Press, 1984), 307.
Marion Humfeld, “An Ozarks Diary,” Kansas City Star, November 28, 1982, 13-23.
“India is Art Theme: Exhibit and Talk Are Part of Women’s City Club Forum,” Kansas City Star, October 3, 1954.
“New Sweepstakes Show Proves Livelier than Predecessors,” Kansas City Star, October 31, 1941, 19.
“A Week of Boosting Art: Sweepstakes Show at Institute One of the High Spots,” Kansas City Star, November 8, 1936, 12A.
“In Gallery and Studio,” Kansas City Star, January 11, 1935, 28.
“Around the Galleries,” Art News, March 24, 1934, 14.
Core Reference Sources
Peter H. Falk, et. al, Who was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: 400 Years of Artists in America (Madison: Sound View Press, 1999).
askART (database), askART, https://www.askart.com/.
Image Credits
Portrait of Artist
Unknown, Portrait of Marion Lucille Humfeld, 1922.
Photograph.
Included in The Savitar (Columbia: University of Missouri, 1922), 51.
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References
Artist clippings file is available at:
“Marion Humfeld: Artist File,” Missouri Valley Special Collections, Kansas City Public Library, Kansas City, Missouri.
Artist’s work in these institutions’ collections
Museum of Art and Archaeology
Bibliography
Select Sources
Sam Blain, “Research on Missouri Artists,” five binders of documented Missouri artists.
“Marion Lucille Humfeld,” Find A Grave, accessed October 25, 2021,
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/146407198/marion-lucille-humfeld.
“U.S. School Yearbooks, 1900-1999 for Marion Lucille Humfeld,” Ancestry, accessed October 21, 2021.
“Marion Lucille Humfeld,” Kansas City Star, January 28, 1995, 35.
“Humfeld, Marion L.,” in Clark S. Marlor, The Salons of America, 1922-1936 (Madison: Sound View Press, 1991), 114.
“Humfeld, Marion L.,” in Clark S. Marlor, The Society of Independent Artists: The Exhibition Record 1917-1944 (Park Ridge, NJ: Noyes Press, 1984), 307.
Marion Humfeld, “An Ozarks Diary,” Kansas City Star, November 28, 1982, 13-23.
“India is Art Theme: Exhibit and Talk Are Part of Women’s City Club Forum,” Kansas City Star, October 3, 1954.
“New Sweepstakes Show Proves Livelier than Predecessors,” Kansas City Star, October 31, 1941, 19.
“A Week of Boosting Art: Sweepstakes Show at Institute One of the High Spots,” Kansas City Star, November 8, 1936, 12A.
“In Gallery and Studio,” Kansas City Star, January 11, 1935, 28.
“Around the Galleries,” Art News, March 24, 1934, 14.
Core Reference Sources
Peter H. Falk, et. al, Who was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: 400 Years of Artists in America (Madison: Sound View Press, 1999).
askART (database), askART, https://www.askart.com/.
Contributors
Roberta Wagener, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Artist Record Published
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