Louise E. Marianetti papers (16.2.5)

Biographical note

Louise E. Marianetti was born in Providence, Rhode Island 1916 March 9. She attended the Rhode Island School of Design and earned her degree in 1936. After school, she and then went onto the Arts Students League in New York City for further study with William Palmer and Robert Brackman until 1939. During this time, she became known for her use of egg tempera paints. Frequently photographed in a trademark black beret, she divided her time between Rhode Island and New York.

Louise Marianetti attained critical attention particularly for her 1949 exhibits at the Vose Gallery in Boston, Massachusetts and the Newport Art Museum in Newport, Rhode Island. At the Vose show, according to family lore, she met Everett Marshall, a baritone who made his debut at New York's Metropolitan Opera in 1927 and starred in the 1935 Busby Berkeley film I Live for Love. After a decade of courtship, Marshall and Marianetti married in Texas in 1959. After his death in 1963 in California, Marianetti returned to Rhode Island, where she lived until her death on 2009 October 1.

Marianetti was a member of the Art Students League of New York and Audubon Artists.

(Series IV Note) Rebecca Russell Greene, 1879 - 1953

A woman artist from Rhode Island, Miss Greene's career was short lived. In 1907 when she became Mrs. Charles H. Everett her career in art was sidelined for family responsibilities. However, during a ten-year period the artist earned a reputation as a local artist of note.

Rebecca Greene was a student at the Rhode Island School of Design from 1898 to 1901. She recieved two honorable mentions during her studies for drawing and watercolor. The RISD bulletins often reproduced her artwork. After graduating in 1901, she became an instructor at her alma mater and held down several positions from the Instructor of RISD's children's class to three other art-teaching positions at the Providence Evening High School, Morris High School and the RISD summer school. Miss Greene was accepted into the Providence Water Color Club. A reproduction of the artist's "At the Piano" was published alongside the art review. In addition, one of her figurative paintings was selected for exhibition at the American Water Color Society in New York and reproduced in the "Brush and Pencil" publication of Chicago.