She was the daughter of Charles Victor Fritjof Løkke and Helga Sell.
She studied at the Norwegian National Academy of Craft and Art Industry and was a student of Harriet Backer for a few months.
She came to the United States in 1902 where she studied with Charles W. Hawthorne at his Cape Cod School of Art in Provincetown, MA.
[4] She exhibited principally in Chicago, Illinois, winning prizes on several occasions.
[6] One of her pieces is on display in the McKinnon Gallery in LaGrange IL Marie Lokke died in 1948 at Oslo, Norway.