For two years she was a pupil of George Elmer Browne in the West End School of Art at Provincetown, Massachusetts.
She studied with Giovanni Romagnoli and exhibited in Erie Pennsylvania working principally in figure and portraits and she was a member of the board of the Associated Arts Society of Pittsburgh.
[3] In the late 1920s she showed with other Tucson-based women artists, including Louise Norton, Katherine Kitt, and Stella Roca.
[4] Marlow made Tucson her permanent winter home and opened a studio in the second floor of the city's Temple of Music and Art.
[citation needed] Marlow worked for the WPA in 1934 along with Stella Roca, Louise Norton, and Mark Voris.