SOLD Untitled signed watercolor 12" x 24"
SOLD Blue going to Yellow signed watercolor 10.5" x 15"
SOLD abstract signed watercolor 17" x 33"
SOLD Promenade signed watercolor 21" x 32"
SOLD Color Game signed watercolor 17" x 26"
SOLD Skyview II signed mixed media 14.5" x 33"
Marian-Ortolf Bagley (1931-2025)
Marian-Ortolf Bagley was a professor of design at the University of Minnesota, where she developed foundational courses in color design, design, and drawing.
Her love of art and fascination with color started as early as kindergarten, where she would paint nearly every day. At Wayne State University, she studied with influential watercolorists Mary Jane Bigler and Louise Jansson Nobili. Holding a Master of Arts in Teaching in Fine Arts and Art History from Indiana University, she was a practicing artist who had many solo exhibitions of her watercolors and drawings, and received numerous awards in juried exhibitions.
Her work is held by the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, the Weisman Art Museum, and the Tweed Museum in Duluth, as well as numerous public and private collections. She has completed commissions for the Goldstein Museum and the Minneapolis Institute of Art. She was a guest professor at Humboldt Universität in Berlin and worked at libraries and archives in the United Kingdom and Europe. Bagley was also the author of two books, one with Margaret Sathre Maxfield in 1986, titled “Afterimage Color Perception for Designers,” and the other with Barbara Caron in 2011, titled “Color in Design and Applied Art.” This is an online book, which is available at: dha.design.umn.edu/research/coloranddesign.
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Marian passed away in early 2025.