Marian MacDowell

Marian MacDowell
MacDowell, c. 1920
Background information
Birth name	Marian Griswold Nevins
Born	(1858-11-22)November 22, 1858 New York, New York, U.S.
Died	August 24, 1956(1956-08-24) (aged 97) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Genres	Classical
Occupation	Concert pianist

Marian MacDowell (maiden name Marian Griswold Nevins) (November 22, 1858 – August 24, 1956) was an American pianist and philanthropist. In 1907, she and her husband Edward MacDowell founded the MacDowell Colony for artists in Peterborough, New Hampshire. Her leadership of the artist retreat through two world wars, the Great Depression and other challenges created one of the foremost cultural institutions in the United States, which cultivated the work of generations of musicians, writers, poets, sculptors, and visual artists.^[1]