Marilyn Bendell

She studied painting at the American Academy of Art in Chicago and privately with Arnold E. Turtle (1892–1954).

She became an artist member of the Chicago Galleries Association, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of the Arts in 1965.

About 1960, she moved to Longboat Key, Florida, where she ran an art school on Cortez Road with her husband George Burrows.

[citation needed] Her final move was to Nambé Pueblo, New Mexico (20 miles from Santa Fe) in 1983, where she continued to give private instruction until 1993.

Her New Mexico oeuvre consists primarily of impressionistic paintings of Native Americans and other women.

Mountain Stream , oil on canvas painting by Marilyn Bendell, private collection
Typical signature of Marilyn Bendell