About the Gallery
Bernard Goldberg Fine Arts specializes in American art created in the early 20th Century, with a specific interest in early modernism, the Ashcan School and the Steiglitz Circle.
About the Presentation
Bernard Goldberg Fine Arts will present work by Marguerite Thompson Zorach and William Zorach in a duo presentation at Independent 20th Century. This exhibition examines one of American modernism's most compelling artistic partnerships: the fifty-year marriage and creative collaboration of William Zorach (1887–1966) and Marguerite Thompson Zorach (1887–1968). Rather than treating them as separate artists who happened to share a life, it argues that their relationship was itself a generative force — one that enabled risk-taking, sustained mutual support, and produced a shared aesthetic universe that shaped American attitudes toward modern art and the integration of art into daily life. Both painters were transformed by early exposure to Fauvism and Cubism, and the exhibition traces how their distinct voices evolved across fifty years of partnership — from Greenwich Village to rural Maine — while giving special attention to Marguerite's groundbreaking embroideries and never-before-exhibited textiles, which reveal her as a radical innovator who dissolved the boundaries between fine art and craft. Presenting them as equals, the exhibition works to restore Marguerite's full standing as a pioneering modernist whose embroidered and woven works deserve recognition alongside her paintings — and whose significance has long been obscured by William's later prominence as a sculptor.
Marguerite Zorach, West 10th Street, 1922, oil on canvas, 23 x 31 inches. Courtesy of Bernard Goldberg Fine Arts.
