Marcia Muth was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana in 1919 and moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1966. She has been painting since 1974. Her work is in private and public collections including The Jewish Museum (New York), The Museum of Fine Arts (Santa Fe), The Albuquerque Museum and The Art Museum of Southwest Texas (Beaumont). This is her twelfth book but the first one on her paintings.