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While painting during Marshali’s early days was considered to be a harmless hobby of most genteel women, only a few were permit- ted to pursue it seriously.

But the women of Marshall’s family were the exception to that prevailing attitude, because art was viewed as more than just a diversion.

Her mother Greta attended the Royal School of Art Needlework in London, and her aunt Phyllis Stevenson exhibited her paintings . at the Royal Academy until her am eer cc cnc wenccseseccncsccrweseesccccoeneuceer death in 1967.

Her most famous artist-relative was Mary (Stevenson) Cassatt,

America’s foremost woman paint- er of the Impressionist era.

Today, at 67, Marshall is an in- ternationally respected painter and scholar. She has returned to Van- couver to exhibit a selection of works entitled African Scrapbook at Vancouver's Dorian Rae Gallery until June 3.

Her work -- which she describes as “‘illusionary realism”

— features large oil canvases of

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