Marion Ranyak
Marion Lorraine Ranyak (25 January 1925 — 22 August 2018) was an American painter who lived and worked in Rye, New York, and was a founding member of SOHO20. Early life and education Born Marion Hannig in New York City, she was the daughter of William A. Hannig and Carolyn Exner Hannig. Her father was a public school principal and later a member of the Board of Examiners (1921–53), an agency in New York City that set personnel standards for administrators and educators. Her mother operated a successful family-owned sand and gravel company. In 1950, Marion Hannig married John A. Ranyak; they divorced in the mid-1970s In 1946, after an unsatisfactory educational experience at Wheelock College, Marion Ranyak spent six weeks in Provincetown, Massachusetts, where she studied with the painter Hans Hofmann. The result, she said, was a "very strong feeling of the two-dimensionality of the surface" which was "always there" in her paintings. Ranyak also began to travel—to California, France, and eventually Italy. While her husband was enrolled at MIT and she was raising their three children, Ranyak had little time to paint; she ceased for 14 years but resumed work in 1962. Reading Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique,