Resources

Selected Exhibitions

Annotated chronology; indicated in parentheses joint (J) and group exhibitions (G).

1913 - International Exhibition of Modern Art, also known as The Armory Show, New York and Chicago (G: MZ, WZ)

1916 - The Forum Exhibition of Modern American Painters, New York (G: MZ, WZ)

1917 - The First Annual Exhibition, Society of Independent Artists, New York (G: MZ, WZ)

1926 - New York Society of Women Artists, New York (G: MZ)

1927 - Downtown Gallery, New York (G: WZ)

1927 - Fortieth Annual Exhibition of American Painting and Sculpture, Art Institute of Chicago (G: WZ) WZ exhibits intermittently at this annual show until 1951.

1930 - Paintings and Sculpture by Living Americans, The Museum of Modern Art, New York (G: WZ) WZ’s works are shown in the MOMA shows in 1934 and from 1939 to 1942

1932 - Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (G: MZ, WZ) WZ’s work is shown in group shows at the Whitney from 1932 to 1981.

1959 - William Zorach Retrospective, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

1967 - William Zorach: 1887-1966, National Collection of Fine Arts (now Smithsonian American Art Museum), Washington, D.C.

1968 - William Zorach Painting, Watercolors and Drawings, 1911-1922, The Brooklyn Museum, New York

1973 - Marguerite Zorach: The Early Years, 1908-20, National Collection of Fine Arts; exhibition travels to The Brooklyn Museum and the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine

1987 - Marguerite and William Zorach: The Maine Years, Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine; exhibition travels to Colby College Museum of Art and Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts.

1987 - Marguerite and William Zorach: The Cubist Years, 1915-1918, Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, New Hampshire; exhibition travels to Berkshire Museum of Art, Pittsfield, Massachusetts and Robert Hull Fleming Museum of Art, Burlington, Vermont

1988- Companions in Art: William and Marguerite Zorach, Williams College Museum of Art; exhibition travels to the Farnsworth Art Museum

2001 - Harmonies and Contrasts, Portland Museum of Art, Maine (J: MZ, WZ)

2007 - Marguerite Zorach: A Life in Art, Gerald Peters Gallery, New York

2010 - A Passion for Form: Sculpture and Works on Paper by William Zorach, Gerald Peters Gallery, New York

2016 - O’Keeffe, Stettheimer, Torr, Zorach: Women Modernists in New York, Norton Museum of Art, Florida; exhibition then traveled to the Portland Museum of Art, Maine (G: MZ)

2018 - A New American Sculpture, 1914–1945: Lachaise, Laurent, Nadelman, and Zorach, Portland Museum of Art, Maine; exhibition travels to Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Texas (G: WZ)

2018 - Marguerite Zorach: An Art Filled Life, Farnsworth Art Museum, Maine

Further Resources

Selected Books and Exhibition Catalogues

A New American Sculpture 1914-1945: Lachaise, Laurent, Nadelman and Zorach, Edited by Andrew J. Eschelbacher, Susan Donnell and Harry W. Konkel Associate Curator of European Art at the Portland Museum of Art, 2017

Clever Fresno Girl: The Travel Writings of Marguerite Thompson Zorach (1908-1915), Efram L. Burk, University of Delaware Press, 2008

Marguerite & William Zorach: Harmonies and Contrasts, Jessica Nicoll, Marguerite Zorach, Roberta K. Tarbell. Portland Museum of Art, 2001

Catalogue Raisonné of William Zorach’s Carved Sculpture, Roberta Tarbell, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, 1976

Marguerite Zorach: The Early Years, 1908-1920, Roberta Tarbell, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1973

Art is My Life, An Autobiography by Zorach, William Zorach, The World Publishing Company, 1967

Zorach Explains Sculpture: What It Means and How It Is Made, William Zorach, Tudor Publishing Company, 1960

William Zorach, John H. Maur, Praeger Publishers, Inc. New York with the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1959

The Sculpture of William Zorach, Paul S. Wingart, Pitman Publishing Company, 1938 

Videos About the Zorachs

Tour of William Zorach’s Studio, photographs by Benjamin Zorach

On Creative Growth, Dahlov Ipcar, 2014 Their artist daughter, Dahlov Ipcar, tells what it was like growing up in the Zorach household. Produced by Robert Ipcar.

Person to Person Interview, March 15, 1952 Edward R. Murrow conducted a live interview with William and Marguerite Zorach at their home studio in Brooklyn, NY