Marilyn Powers (1925-1976)

Marilyn Powers was born in Brookline, MA and attended the Massachusetts College of Art (1942-45) and the Boston Museum School (1945-49), where she studied with figurative-expressionist Karl Zerbe.  She was an established portrait painter, watercolorist and oil painter, a plein-air artist who specialized in lush, colorful landscapes.

In 1971, Ms. Powers along with her husband, artist Jason Berger, co-founded
The Direct Vision, “a group of like-minded artists whose purpose, like that of the Impressionists, was to revive the tradition of similar artists showing their work together.”  Marilyn Powers saw The Direct Vision “as an extension of the family and of family support, and as a way of countering the isolation of the artist.” (“Homage to Marilyn Powers,” by Flora Greenan, January 1980)

Marilyn Powers dedicated herself to the tradition of plein-air painting and traveled, painted, and studied extensively in France.  She also traveled and painted in Mexico and Portugal.  She was a highly dedicated professional artist whose work reflects both her passion for painting and her high standards as an artist.

Ms. Powers’ last exhibition was a posthumous show at the Judi Rotenberg Gallery, Boston, in 2002.  Prior to that, she had exhibited at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (1962), and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (1962), as well as the Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA (1980).  The Jameson Estate Collection is pleased to represent the work of this accomplished artist.