- As a musician, he played Ukulele on stage and he worked and played with blues man, Leadbelly. Dwight recorded a charming collection of comedic, spoken word and whistling songs, a compilation entitled "The Opalescent Handyman", of which only a few copies are known to exist in private collection.
- Longtime friend, actress Gianna Petrone, muse and drama coach to actor Marlon Brando, holds a large private collection of Mr. Marfield's artwork, music and letters.
- An accomplished painter, his oil and watercolor paintings were exhibited in various galleries and museums. He had three solo exhibitions on 57th Street (NY}, one at The Dayton Art Institute, and one at the Princeton University Museum. His artwork toured for 2 years in a traveling show of The Museum of Modern Art. His art was on exhibit at The Whitney Museum, The Brooklyn Museum, The Fogg Museum, The Chicago Art Institute, The London Gallery (London, England}, and The Severin-Mars Gallery (Paris, France}. Other NY exhibitions include the West Village Show of Antic Art (1964}, Young In Art (1964} and The Ramon Lopez Gallery (1962} in California. He painted the large Pontchartrain Hotel mural in New Orleans (1948}, and executed several portraits on commission. He signed his works with his initials DHM.
- A gifted artist and intellect, Dwight H. Marfield is an alumnus of Harvard College (Cambridge, MA). Per the 1940 Alumni Directory, he received his Bachelor of Arts in 1929 from Harvard College and his Master of Arts in 1931 from the Harvard Graduate School of Arts & Sciences.
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