Paintings by Marilyn Fenn
Painting by Ferdinand Hodler
Lake Geneva as seen from Chexbres,
oil on canvas
1905
Class notes from Advanced Drawing with Barbara Rossi, SAIC,1991
For help with my current work, look at:
Heiderrat, India – rock formations like Enchanted Rock from National Geographic or Life.
Ferdinand Hodler for narrative.
Sketch by Marilyn Fenn
Copy after Chagall’s “Birth” at the Art Institute of Chicago,
Pencil on paper
7″x5″
1991
Class Notes from Advanced Studio Drawing, taught by Barbara Rossi, Fall 1991
Purpose of class: development of personal resources, more inventive with how you represent things; more significant to you.
Look at modes of representation, both Western & other.
It happens by doing it [...]
I am an abstract painter. I received my BFA in Painting from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. I now live in Austin, TX, and paint primarily in oil, acrylic and encaustic. 
You know when I used to get high, which is what I use to do I would sit and get high and look at the work. Now I don’t get high anymore and so I just look at the work. It’s easier.
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