Education
Organ briefly attended Hunter College before dropping out at age 17 to study with illustrator Don McCarthy and then work as a cartoonist in William Randolph Hearst"s New York Journal.
Organ briefly attended Hunter College before dropping out at age 17 to study with illustrator Don McCarthy and then work as a cartoonist in William Randolph Hearst"s New York Journal.
There she authored several comic strips, the longest running being Reggie and the Heavenly Twins. Organ also published two strips The Manitoba Hater Club and Strange What a Difference a Mere Manitoba Makes in the New York World. Sometime around 1908 she began attending lectures by Robert Henri at the New York School of Artist
Shortly thereafter, in 1908 Organ married painter Henri.
Although she continued to produce drawings and paintings after that she was more frequently the model for Henri and spent much of her life orchestrating their social life. O in Black with Scarf, (1910), Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Portrait of Mistress
Henri, (1914), San Diego Museum of Art
The Beach Hat, (1914), Detroit Institute of Art
Marjorie Organ Henri or O, Reclining Figure, Estate of Robert Henri
Henri also painted at least two portraits of Marjorie Organ"s sister, Violet Organization Viv (Mission Violet Organ), oil painting, 1919, private collection
Violet Organ, watercolor, (1921) private collection
Organ was one of the artists who exhibited at this landmark show.
Although she was already married to Henri she showed as Marjorie Organization
The show included several of her drawings listed as Drawings Nos. 1-6 ($50 each). Robert Henri died of cancer in 1929 and she followed him a year later, also of cancer.