Art by Marjorie Anne Scheier

Marjorie Scheier was born and raised in Philadelphia. She studied at the Student’s Art League in New York City, and Philadelphia College of Art, where she graduated with a major in fashion illustration in 1954 and art education in 1970. She experimented with different media and found drawing and painting to be her passion: oil, watercolor, gouache, silkscreen, color pencil, and pastel. An abstract painter early in her career, Marjorie moved to figurative compositions of people in motion in scenes of everyday life.

From 1959 Marjorie lived and worked in Moorestown, NJ, spent summers on Long Beach Island where she raised her family and created art in her home studio. Her work was inspired by people she photographed along the shore, in local and regional venues, upstate NY where her daughter and family live, as well as scenes from her global travels. The people she met and observed through her camera lens found their way to her canvases.

Marjorie’s work has been featured in solo, group and juried exhibitions winning numerous awards. Her work has been represented in galleries in Philadelphia, New Jersey, New York City, Virginia, Massachusetts and Georgia, and has been selected for open space permanent collections in Philadelphia. Her painting, On The Move, is published in Philadelphia Images: Philadelphia People, Places and Pastimes by Artists, The University of the Arts Press, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1990.