Alice Randall Marsh

Alice Randall Marsh (1869-1929) was an American miniature painter and wife of fellow artist Frederick Dana Marsh (1872–1961).

Biography

Marsh née Randall was born in 1869 in Coldwater, Michigan. She attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She also traveled to Paris, France where she studied under Raphaël Collin, Frederick William MacMonnies, Luc-Olivier Merson, and James MacNeill Whistler.

In 1895, while in Paris, she married Frederick Dana Marsh with whom she had three children. The couple met in Chicago, where they both attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and exhibited work at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois. Alice exhibited her work in the Illinois Building.

Marsh exhibited her paintings at the Paris Salon in 1895. The same year she exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago

After many years abroad the couple returned to the United States in 1900. They lived at the Enclosure, an art colony in Nutley, New Jersey. The family relocated to New Rochelle, New York in 1914. Their son Reginald Marsh (1898–1954) became a painter. Their son James Randall Marsh (1896-1965) became a designer and metal worker.

Marsh died on October 24, 1929 while on vacation in Italy.

External link

• Alice Randall Marsh on Findagrave