Marjorie May Gulley Blake was born in Los Angeles, CA on Nay 22, 1920. Blake studied fashion design at Otis Art Institute and for a while worked as a costumer at MGM. Her early paintings were inspired by Impressionism; whereas, her later works were abstract. She died in Los Angeles on July 15, 1994.

Edan Hughes, "Artists in California, 1786-1940"