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MARION C. RAULSTON
In the various activities and occupations of life in which individuals gain distinction, the contemporary biographer may find much food for thought and study. To him is granted an insight into the intricate workings of the marts of trade and commerce; he is permitted a glimpse, perfunctory perhaps, of the official machinery which creates and develops our leaders in the political arena; his is the privilege of tracing, step by step, the advance of those who have chosen professional lives as their field of endeavor. But it is rarely his opportunity to have for his subject one who has come to the forefront in the exclusive field of art. The ordinary individual, master thought he may be of business, politics, or a profession, bows to the skill of the artist. His is the God-given power. Commercial success, professional attainment, public prowess, all these may be gained through a steady and persevering application to the rules and principles which govern them, but ability to depict the happenings of our existence, the genius to create the representation of the things that are and the things that have been, the capacity of showing men the meaning of Life, these gifts are given to but few. It little befits the layman to attempt to draw a pen picture of one whose work has brought her to the very forefront among contemporary American artists. It much suffice to sketch the salient points of a career that has been crowned with unqualified success—that of Marion C. Raulston, of Los Angeles.
Marion C. Raulston is a native of Montana, the daughter of O. H. Churchill, who was for many years a leading citizen of Great Falls, Montana, where he was active in the banking business. Attending the exclusive Marlborough School for Girls at Los Angeles, she later studied her art at Pratt Institute, Otis Art Institute, and Skarbina of Berlin, Germany. She has shown outstanding ability in portraiture and has painted portraits of many of the leading citizens of America. Her portrait painting of Coach Howard C. Jones of the University of Southern California was presented to the University. Paintings of Marion C. Raulston are also on permanent display in the art room of the Los Angeles Public Library. Her work has also been displayed at the Friday Morning Club and Kays Book Shop at Santa Monica. Her club membership includes the Friday Morning, Women Painters of the West, of which she is first vice-president, and National Association, Women’s Art and Culture Club.
Marion C. Raulston has a very beautiful studio located at 22nd and Figueroa streets in a large residential building erected in 1886, and which has been the studio of six of the West’s noted artists. Aside from portrait work her paintings of early Spanish historical dwellings are known throughout California.
Our subject married Doctor O. Burrell Raulston, one of the leading physicians of Los Angeles, and they reside in their beautiful home at 200 South Hudson, in the Wilshire district.
As has been well said by one specially familiar with her career, “Few artists have the power to create the likeness of their subject as Marion C. Raulston can do with her brush.”
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Marilyn R. Pankey.
Source: California
of the South Vol. V, by John Steven McGroarty, Pages
581-582, Clarke Publ., Chicago, Los Angeles, Indianapolis. 1933.
© 2013 Marilyn R. Pankey.
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