Guide to the Marion L. Jochimsen paintings

M. Carey
University of California, Santa Cruz
2013
1156 High Street
Santa Cruz 95064
speccoll@library.ucsc.edu


Contributing Institution: University of California, Santa Cruz
Title: Marion L. Jochimsen paintings
Creator: Jochimsen, Marion L., 1894-1996
source: Jochimsen, Marion L., 1894-1996
Identifier/Call Number: MS.047
Physical Description: 1.5 Linear Feet 3 boxes, 2 framed items
Date (inclusive): 1930-1978
Abstract: This collection contains 21 tempera portrait paintings done by Jochimsen along with a couple of photos of her, color transparencies of the paintings, her scrapbook and a holograph autobiography.
Physical Location: Stored in Special Collections & Archives: Advance notice is required for access to the papers.
Language of Material: English

Access

Collection open for research.

Use Restrictions

Copyright for the items in this collection is owned by the creators and their heirs. Reproduction or distribution of any work protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use requires permission from the copyright owner. It is the responsibility of the user to determine whether a use is fair use, and to obtain any necessary permissions. For more information see UCSC Special Collections and Archives policy on Reproduction and Use.

Preferred Citation

Marion L. Jochimsen paintings. MS 47. Special Collections and Archives, University Library, University of California, Santa Cruz.

Acquisition Information

Gift of Marion Jochimsen in 1982

Biography

Marion Jochimsen (1894-1996), a life-long artist and a member of the American Watercolor Society since the 1940s, died at her home at La Posada in Santa Cruz on January 17, 1996. She was 101 years old.
Marion led a colorful life that took her from her native Alaska to Europe, New York, Mexico, Santa Fe, San Francisco, Santa Barbara and Santa Cruz, her home since 1968. Throughout her life she made her living as an artist - painting portraits, teaching and working as a commercial artist for magazines and the movie industry.
Marion was feisty, funny, independent, free thinking, opinionated and artistic in everything she did throughout her long life. She was born in Alaska on July 4, 1894, where her father owned a trading post in Juneau and operated trade ships which ran between Siberia and Alaska. Her grandfather was also a trader and a shoemaker who won favor with the Russians before the United States bought Alaska in 1867.
When Marion was 13 years old her mother brought her from Juneau to San Francisco for high school and Saturday art classes at the California School of Design which was then affiliated with the University of California. While there she studied under Frank Van Sloan. She later studied in Paris at the Academie Scaninave.
In her late teens Marion married Captain Achton Jochimsen, one of her father's best friends, a whaler, walrus hunter and master of the ice-breaking ships for the Swenson Fur Trading Company. In 1914, Achton and his crew rushed in during the break-up of an ice-pack in the Arctic and rescued sixteen men from Vilhajlmur Stefansson's Canadian Arctic Expedition who had been stranded on the ice pack for a year.
While her husband was sailing around the Arctic during the 1920s, Marion was working as a portrait artist in New York City. After his death in 1931 she continued to paint and in 1935 showed for the first time with the American Watercolor Society. For the next several years, she exhibited regularly and in 1943 was one of the first women and one of the first portrait painters to be accepted into the Society.
During the 1940s and 1950s, Marion worked as a commercial artist for Fox Films and for several magazines. In 1958 she left New York for Cuernavaca where she lived for several months, then moved to Santa Fe. In 1960 Marion moved to San Francisco and taught art classes at San Francisco State College.
Marion moved to Santa Cruz in 1968 where she lived in a trailer park near Pleasure Park. She was a common site around town riding her three wheel bike, carrying her little dog in the front basket. Marion loved dogs, particularly Chihuahuas and other small breeds.
In 1982 Marion gave the University of California, Santa Cruz, Special Collections twenty-one of her tempera portraits portraits with descriptions of her technique and a book of clippings and her own writings about her work. In 1990 she gave the remainder of her collection to the Santa Cruz City Museum of Natural History so that works might be sold to benefit the City Museum.
Linda Pope, The Pope Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA

Scope and Content of Collection

This collection contains 21 tempera portrait paintings done by Jochimsen along with a couple of photos of her, color transparencies of the paintings, her scrapbook and a holograph autobiography.

Processing Information

Processed by Maureen Carey. Completed September 24, 2013.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Artists -- California -- Santa Cruz County
Painting, American -- 20th century
Tempera paintings
Portrait paintings
Jochimsen, Marion L., 1894-1996

box-folder 1:1

Old Lady, ms0047_ptg_0001 ca. 1935-1940

General

Artist note: Mrs. Prichette
box-folder 1:2

Mme Paulette Faucelle, ms0047_ptg_0002 ca. 1935-1940

General

Artist note: French beauty
box-folder 1:3

The Wake, ms0047_ptg_0003 ca. 1935-1960

General

Artist note: I found him at the Safeway, a retired truck driver
box-folder 1:4

Charlette Limont ms0047_ptg_0004 ca. 1935-1960

General

Artist note: Artist
box-folder 1:5

The Boa ms0047_ptg_0005 ca. 1935-1960

General

Artist note: A super model
box-folder 1:6

Mr. Lyle Mahan, ms0047_ptg_0006 ca. 1935-1960

General

Artist note: Distinguished New York Lawyer
box-folder 1:7

The Muff ms0047_ptg_0007 ca. 1935-1960

General

Artist note: Writer
box-folder 1:8

Captain Ted ms0047_ptg_0008 ca. 1935-1960

General

Artist note: Army
box-folder 1:9

Chilean ms0047_ptg_0009 ca. 1935-1960

General

Artist note: Lady from South America
 

#10 Motto Chic, ms0047_ptg_0010 ca. 1935-1960

General

Artist note: Writer
box-folder 2:11

Bookie, ms0047_ptg_0011 ca. 1935-1960

General

Artist note: Really a Process Server
box-folder 2:12

Musician, ms0047_ptg_0012 ca. 1935-1960

General

Artist note: From Monte Carlo
box-folder 2:13

Vilhjalmur Steffansson, ms0047_ptg_0013 ca. 1935-1960

General

Artist note: World famous arctic explorer and author of many classics on the Arctic.
box-folder 2:14

Young Seaman, ms0047_ptg_0014 ca. 1935-1960

General

Artist note: From Nantucket
box-folder 2:15

Mr. Seal, ms0047_ptg_0015 ca. 1935-1960

General

Artist note: A Character
box-folder 2:16

Prince Franz Hoenlohe, ms0047_ptg_0016 ca. 1935-1960

General

Artist note: Austrian of Thurn and Taxis
box-folder 2:17

Sunday Scandal, ms0047_ptg_0017 ca. 1935-1960

General

Artist note: A Good Cook
box-folder 2:18

Boris Lubin, ms0047_ptg_0018 ca. 1935-1960

General

Artist note: Portrait Painter
box-folder 2:19

JAmes Montgomery Flagg, ms0047_ptg_0019 ca. 1935-1960

General

Artist note: Famous illustrator of the last generation
box-folder 2:20

Julius Delbos, ms0047_ptg_0020 ca. 1935-1960

General

Artist note: Artist, American Watercolor Society
box-folder 2:21

Young Girl, ms0047_ptg_0021 ca. 1935-1960

General

Artist note: Jill
box-folder 3:1-2

Marion Jochimsen, ms0047_pho_0001-0002 ca. 1940-1960

General

Artist note: Self portrait taken in a mirror - from time she was painting the portrait
Box 3

Publicity scrapbook of painting career, ca. 1950-1970

Box 3

Autobiography, ca. 1980

Box 3

21 color slides of paintings, ca. 1970