Mariot Fraser "Marny" Solomon of Cambridge, died on September 19, 2020. Crippled by polio while still a child, her education was delayed, but she matriculated at Vassar College and transferred to Harvard University. After earning her BA in Fine Arts, Magna Cum Laude, in 1958, Marny remained close to Harvard and in later years served as an assistant to Harvard Fine Arts professors Frederick Deknatel and Charles Kuhn. She also worked with Wellesley professor Richard Wallace. Deeply engaged by visual art, she collected old-master prints and then enthusiastically collaborated with her second husband, Arthur K. Solomon, Ph.D., a professor and research scientist at the Harvard Medical School, who had been an active collector of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century French art since his undergraduate years at Princeton. Together, in the 1970s and 1980s, they moved into the arena of the most recent American painting and sculpture, with a special interest in the Color Field movement. Their collections have been bequeathed to the Harvard Art Museums, which had received their generous philanthropy during their lifetimes. Arthur Solomon died in 2002; Marny is survived by a stepdaughter and stepson.
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