[1] She moved to San Francisco and shared a studio in Russian Hill, with her former tutor, the artist Henry Varnum Poor.
[1] In Paris in 1923 she met the poster designer Edward McKnight Kauffer (1890–1954), and subsequently resided with him in London from late 1923 to July 1940.
[1] Dorn's career took off in the early 1920s with her move to London, she was creating batik textiles as well as printing on silk, linen, velvet at the time.
[1] Dorn completed her last major commission (1960), the carpet for the diplomatic reception room at the White House, Washington, DC.
[1] A cast bronze bust of Marion Dorn, circa 1930-1931 made by Frank Owen Dobson is at the National Portrait Gallery in London.