Marguerite Pearson

Marguerite Stuber Pearson was born in Philadelphia in 1898. She was struck with polio in her teens and confined to a wheelchair the rest of her life. But she did not allow her disability to handicap her plans of becoming an artist. She studied with Edmund Tarbell and at the Boston Museum School of Fine Arts.

Pearson studied at the Fenway School of Illustration in Boston, and at the Museum School with Frederick Bosley.  and William James. Beside Tarbell, Pearson also studied with Aldro Hibbard for landscape, Henry Leith-Ross, Henery Hunt Clark, Howard Giles (design), Harold N. Anderson and Chase Emerson (illustration).

She is known for her exquisitively rendered interior scenes as well as her still life and figurative works. This painting is a outstanding example of her figurative work, completed in 1926 while taking private art lessons with Edmund Tarbell (1922 - 1927).

Pearson moved to Rockport permanently in 1941 where she taught and painted until her death in 1978.