Marie Menken
Marie Menken , was an American experimental filmmaker, painter, and socialite. She was noted for her unique filming style that incorporated collage.
Menken was born in Brooklyn, New York on May 25, 1909, to a Roman Catholic immigrant couple from Lithuania. She studied at the New York School of Fine and Industrial Arts as well as the Art Students League of New York and honed her craft as a painter. To support herself, she worked as a secretary at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum before receiving a scholarship from Yaddo and moving to upstate New York.
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