Marion Greenwood was an American

United States

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 painter and engraver. She was the younger sister of Grace Greenwood Ames

Grace Greenwood Ames

Grace Greenwood Ames was an American artist, who worked predominantly in Mexico, where she got her artistic training....

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Greenwood visited the Art Students League of New York

Art Students League of New York

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 and at the Académie Colarossi

Académie Colarossi

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 in Paris

Paris

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. Before she moved to Mexico

Mexico

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, where she stood until 1936, she attended to lithography

Lithography

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, oil

Oil painting

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 and portrait painting. In Mexico she painted mural

Mural

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s in order of the Mexican government. After her return to the United States she kept on painting murals until 1940, when she went to Europe. During World War II

World War II

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 she worked as female war painter of the United States Army

United States Army

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, and participated in a rehabilitation program for wounded soldiers of the Army Medical Department (AMEDD). In 1944 she gave her first single exhibition in New York, and visited India, China and other countries after 1946. She was guest professor of fine arts at University of Tennessee

University of Tennessee

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from 1954 to 1955, where she painted a mural at the university center.