Marian Cannon Schlesinger (September 13, 1912 – October 14, 2017) was an American artist and author.

[1] She published two volumes of her memoir, Snatched from Oblivion: A Cambridge Memoir and I Remember: A Life of Politics, Painting and People, as well as five children's books, which she also illustrated.

[2] She painted landscapes and portraits and spent time in China, where she visited her sister, to study art.

She was sister of Wilma Cannon Fairbank, an historian of Chinese art.

She died on October 14, 2017, at the age of 105 years, 31 days in Cambridge, Massachusetts.