Born in Fresno, CA.  Studied in Paris and was a good friend of Gertrude Stein. Met her husband William Zorach in Paris.  She was an accomplished painter and craftswoman who specialized in textile design.  She was a member of the New York Society of Women Artists, and also the American Society of Painters, Sculptors and Gravers.  She received awards in the Pan.-Pacific Exposition in 1915; and a gold medal in the Art Institute of Chicago Exposition in 1920.  Marguerite and William were considered to be in the vanguard of modern art. Among their friends the Zorachs counted many of the Modern Art giants greats like Picasso, Matisse, Léger and Braque.

Both Marguerite and William were intrigued with German Expressionism and Cubism.
They were the first and perhaps the only modern artists of the Cornish Colony.

Marguerite's work is in the collection of twenty-two museums: Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Yale University Art Gallery, National Gallery of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Allen R. Hite Art Institute, the Addison Gallery of American Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Portland Museum of Art, the Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, the Newark Museum the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Columbus Museum of Art in Ohio, La Salle University Art Museum, the Jack B. Blanton Museum of Art in Austin, TX, the Tacoma Art Museum, and our own Cornish Colony Museum.