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Marian Cannon Schlesinger
Marian Cannon Schlesinger (September 13, 1912 – October 14, 2017) was an American artist and author.[1] She published two volumes of her memoir, Snatched from Oblivion: A Cambridge Memoir and I Remember: A Life of Politics, Painting and People, as well as five children's books, which she also illustrated.[2] She painted landscapes and portraits and spent time in China, where she visited her sister, to study art.[3] Personal lifeShe was a native of Cambridge, Massachusetts, and a graduate of Radcliffe College. Her mother was feminist reformer and novelist Cornelia James Cannon, and her father was Walter Bradford Cannon, a professor at Harvard University. She was sister of Wilma Cannon Fairbank, an historian of Chinese art. She was married for thirty years to Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.; their daughter, Christina Schlesinger, is a painter. She died on October 14, 2017, at the age of 105 years, 31 days in Cambridge, Massachusetts.[4][5] Works
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