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 McNeill Whistler.

Alice Randall Marsh

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.

Alice Randall Marsh

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

Alice Randall Marsh

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.

References

External links

Alice Randall Marsh on Findagrave

1869 births

1929 deaths

19th-century American women artists

20th-century American women artists

Painters from Chicago

School of the Art Institute of Chicago alumni

American expatriates in France