Watercolor

Picasso style figure of a woman with various subjects around her like a planet. The artist signed the work on the bottom right and it is framed in a gold frame.

Hal Marcus was born in 1951 in El Paso, Texas. He started to show an interest in painting in high school. His sense of color originated from the influences of Mexico were as a child he accompanied his grandmother on weekly visits to Juarez market. His early paintings were colorful expressions of cubistic world. His love for art slowly began to reflect the environment in which he lived. He is a self-taught folk-art style has become main stream in the isolated art community along the Rio Grande. Marcus was inducted into the El Paso Artists Hall of Fame in 2003. He served as a member and then as Chairman of the El Paso Museum of Art Advisory Board from 2004 to 2007. Marcus was appointed to the Accessions Committee for the El Paso Museum of Art serving from 2010 to 2014.

H 38.5 in. x W 31 in. x D 1 in.

H 33.5 in x W 27 in.