Marion Cannon Schlesinger oil on canvas portrait of a woman; dated "1966" and signed "M Cannon S" to lower right corner; in beautiful rustic Scandinavian frame; measures approximately 36-1/2" x 25-3/4" with frame and has a sight image of approximately 30" x 19-1/2". Marian Cannon Schlesinger (born September 13, 1912) is an artist and author. She has 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. Marian Cannon Schlesinger has painted landscapes and portraits and spent time in China studying art. She is a native of Connecticut and a graduate of Radcliffe College. Her mother was feminist reformer and novelist Cornelia James Cannon, and her father was Walter Bradford Cannon, a professor at Harvard University. She was for a time married to the historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr.; their daughter Christina is also a painter.