Career
An impressionist painter, he specialized in seascapes, particularly oil depictions of the California coast. He also painted many landscapes, portraits and still lifes. He served as vice president of the latter for several years during the mid to late 1950s.
Foreign many years, Marshall Merritt maintained a studio in Willits, California.
While in Willits, he would spend as much as four months each year on the Monterey Peninsula painting landscapes and seascapes. During his career he exhibited at the De Young Museum in San Francisco, the Mendocino County Fair, and various galleries on the Monterey Peninsula and in northern California.
Marshall Merritt had two daughters, Virginia and Shirley. He died while on vacation in the north central United States. in July 1978.
He was a resident of Los Gatos, California at the time of his death.