| BRITISH COLUMBIA ARTISTS |
She was a long-time follower and proponent of the Baha'i faith, which she learned about when she was living in France.
She returned to Canada, and exhibited with the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts in 1908 and 1914, and at the Art Association of Montreal from 1908 to 1916.
She came to west to Vancouver in 1919, and went on an extended trip to Alaska, covering some 6,000 miles in the process (Jasion). After her return to Vancouver, she exhibited her work in the 1920 Annual Exhibition of the B.C. Society of Fine Arts, held at the Vancouver School Board offices on Hamilton Street. She exhibited more work the same year in at least three exhibitions with the Vancouver Sketch Club, winning a prize for a landscape in oil in one of the exhibitions.
The painting titled "Study of Miss J. Fripp" is a portrait of Thomas William Fripp's daughter Jocelyn Mary Fripp, who was born in Hatzic on September 8 1903 and passed away in Kamloops on May 18 1991.
After leaving Vancouver Jack ended up living and working in Bulgaria for a number of years, where she died and was buried in 1954.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
| DATE | EXHIBITION | ARTWORK |
| 1920 April 10 | Sketch Club Monthly Exhibition | (paintings from the far north) |
| 1920 June | Sketch Club Monthly Exhibition | (pictures) |
| 1920 September | Vancouver Exhibition VSC Exhibition | (landscape) |
| (part of loan exhibition) | ||
| 1920 Sept. 18 - 25 | BCSFA Annual Exhibition | Study of Miss J. Fripp |
| Savary Island | ||
| The Old Favorites | ||
| 1920 Oct. 2 - ? | Sketch Club Monthly Exhibition | (portrait) |
| (portrait) | ||
| (Palestine sketch) | ||
| (Palestine sketch) | ||
| (landscapes) | ||
| 1920 Dec. 4 - ? | Sketch Club Annual Exhibition | Mrs. George Blace (portrait) |
| Miss Heaton (portrait) | ||
| ("several portraits") | ||
| (Bedouin encampment) |
ROYAL CANADIAN ACADEMY OF ARTS - EXHIBITIONS & MEMBERS 1880 - 1979 (refer to RCA81)
MONTREAL MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS - SPRING EXHIBITIONS 1880 - 1970
(refer to MM88)
17 works cited in 5 exhibitions for Jack 1908 - 1916.
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BRITISH COLUMBIA (refer to EBC00)
BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX OF ARTISTS IN CANADA (refer to BIAC03)
5 references cited for Jack, including MM and RCA above.
NEVER BE AFRAID TO DARE: the story of 'General Jack', Marion Elizabeth Jack, 1866-1954
by Jan Teofil Jasion. Oxford: Publisher George Ronald, 2001.
ISBN 9780853984498; 352 page book, 15 pages front matter, 24 pages of plates
https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/9622917
Includes extensive notes; exhibitions list; known works in collections
Extensive compilation of information on friends and associates
"Among the exhibits which were the subject of enthusiastic comment were
the pictures of Miss Marion Jack, who has recently returned to Vancouver
from Alaska, and who is a New Brunswick woman who has studied in the
European schools. Her pictures are fresh
and vivid. They display fine decorative feeling and are well painted."
From "Freshness and Vitality in Exhibition of Vancouver Sketch Club"
Western Woman's Weekly, June 5 1920
"Miss Jack got second prize for landscape in oils."
"In the Loan Exhibit members represented were ... Miss Marion Jack, ... "
From "Arts Clubs Active - Vancouver Sketch Club"
Western Woman's Weekly, September 18 1920
"Miss Marion E. Jack showed two portrait studies, done at the club's evening life class,
also landscapes in oil and water color, two of them being sketches done in Palestine."
From "Vancouver Sketch Club"
Western Woman's Weekly, October 9 1920
"Marion E. Jack of St. John, N.B., showed several portraits, the best of which was
of Mrs. George Blace, whose vivacity Miss Jack was fortunate enough to catch. Miss Heaton
done in one evening was also said to be like the young lady. The only landscape shown by
this artist was a scene in Palestone (sic) of a Bedouin encampment in the Valley of Achos
showing the foothills of the Lebanon Mountains in the distance."
From "Annual Exhibit by Sketch Club"
Vancouver Province, December 6 1920