MARJORIE PORTNOW, NA NA 1999 Born in New York, NY, 1942, painter Marjorie Portnow earned a BA from Western Reserve University and an MFA from Brooklyn College, CUNY. She lives and works in New York City and has taught at the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, New York Studio School, University of California, Santa Cruz, Brooklyn College, Vermont Studio Center, and the National Academy School of Fine Arts. Recent exhibitions include the Fischbach Gallery; Hollins University; National Archives Building, Baton Rouge, LA; Cherrystone Gallery, MA; Harcus-Krakow, Boston; Contemporary Realist Gallery, San Francisco; Metropolitan Museum of Art; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; American Academy of Arts & Letters; and the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Her work is included in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art; Amherst Museum; Sheldon Art Museum; Albany Institute of History and Art; Middlebury College; and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She is the recipient of a Hassam Purchase Prize, American Academy of Arts & Letters; NEA Grant; Ingram Merrill Grant; New York Foundation for the Arts Grant; New York State Creative Artists Public Service Grant; Louis Comfort iffany Grant; and residencies at Yaddo and the MacDowell Art Colony.