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Marius Rocle (1897 - 1967)
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From Europe, Marius Rocle lived in Paris during his youth where his father was editor of "Figaro". At the outbreak of World War I, he was a citizen of New York, and enlisted in the Army. He earned the Croix de Guerre, serving for two years, and later he joined the Lafayette Flying Corps. After the war, he became a representative for a U.S. machinery firm in Paris, where he married his wife Margot. They lived in New York and then relocated to Southern California in 1921, settling in Chula Vista.
They purchased a lemon ranch, and his wife taught Rocle to paint. The couple lived off the ranch income and traveled in Europe, North Africa, and Mexico in search of subject matter. After the premature death of two sons, and with young twin daughters to raise, the Rocles began to turn their attention away from art. Little was heard from them in art circles after 1940. About 1950, they purchased a ranch in Ramona. Moving there in 1955, they continued their second great interest, raising saddlebred and Arabian horses. Marius died in Ramona on November 16, 1967, Margot in 1981.
Source: Edan Hughes, "Artists in California"
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