Marie Goth (1887 - 1975) American
Oil on Canvas
Measure17 1/2"in H x 13 1/2"in W and 21"in H x 17"in W with frame

Known for: Portrait, figure, still life
Biography: Considered a premier portrait painter of Indiana, Marie Goth was much influenced from childhood by her father, Charles Goth, who encouraged her to read and draw pictures. She attended Manual Training High School, where Otto Stark, her father's cousin and a Hoosier painter, was the head of the art department. By age sixteen, she had won first prize in a design contest sponsored by the city. After her High School graduation, she served as an assistant for three years to Stark. She also took classes at the John Herron Art Institute, and spent a summer in Cincinnati studying at the Art Academy with Vincent Nowottny. From 1909 to 1919, she attended on scholarships the Art Students League in New York, and lived with other young female students from a variety of schools at the Three Arts Club on West Eighty-fifth Street. To earn money, she painted small portraits, and received $15.00 for each one. She also received $100.00 for completing an illustration for the Lyons Toothpaste Company. In New York City, she fell in love with Italian born fellow art student Varaldo Cariani, and they did much painting together in the city environs. In May 1919, Marie Goth returned to her hometown of Indianapolis and set up a studio in her family home. While she had been away at school, her career was followed closely by many local friends and was much supported by her father who turned the home into an art gallery of her paintings. Goth lived a relatively simple life of hard work, routine and frugality, usually wearing hand-me-down clothes. As she aged, local people looked out for her. Her sister, Genevieve, married to artist Carl Graf, died in 1961, and eight years later, Marie was devastated by the death of Cariani. Marie Goth died in 1975 at age eighty-seven. She had been bitten by a brown spider and likely feeling ill, fell down a stairway in her cabin. She died from head injuries. She left most of her estate of $600,000. 00 to the Brown County Art Guild with the agreement that a museum be built and maintained to exhibit paintings by her, her sister, Cariani and Carl Graf. Several years before her death, she had written that she considered "it a privilege to live and work in Brown County where I've already spent fifty of the happiest years anyone can hope for".

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