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(2) William Zorach
(b Eurburg [now Yurbarkas], Lithuania, 1889; d Bath, ME, 15 Nov 1966). Sculptor, painter and writer of Lithuanian birth, husband of (1) Marguerite Zorach. He emigrated to the USA with his family in 1893, settling in Cleveland, where he worked as a lithographer (1902–8) and studied painting with Henry G. Keller (1869–1949) at the School of Art (1905–7). In New York he received academic training in painting at the Art Students League, and he studied at La Palette in Paris (1910–11). William and Marguerite Zorach became part of a small group of modern artists in New York, in Provincetown, MA, and in Maine, exhibiting Fauvist paintings at the Armory Show in 1913 and Cubist and Expressionist works at the Forum Exhibition in New York in 1916.
Part of the Zorach family
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