Blanche Grant

Blanche Chloe Grant (1874–1948) was an American artist, magazine illustrator and author. She is remembered as a muralist as well as a painter of American Indians. Born in Leavenworth, Kansas, she studied at Vassar College, at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and the Art Student's League. She studied with Howard Pyle and in 1911, along with Ethel Leach and Olive Rush, she was living in Pyle's studio, when he died on a trip to Italy. By 1914 she was established as a magazine illustrator and landscape painter.[1]

1) Blanche C. Grant, 2) Jennie Fortune, 3) Margaret Reeves, 4) Maude Hancock Prichard

Grant became an associate professor in the School of Fine Arts at University of Nebraska in 1916.[2]

Grant came to Taos, NM in 1920 on vacation and decided to settle there permanently.[3] She wrote several books related to the area and edited the Taos Valley News.[4] Her paintings can be found in the Harwood Museum of Art in Taos and New Mexico Museum of Art in Santa Fe.[5][6]

Murals

Grant produced murals for the New Mexico Technical University library (“Mine”) in Socorro, New Mexico,[7] and for the Taos Presbyterian Church, the latter in 1921. They are no longer extant. Grant was buried at that church.[8]

Selected bibliography

References
  1. Samuels, Peggy; Samuels, Harold (1985). Samuels' Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West. USA: Book Sales Inc. p. 193. ISBN 1555210147.
  2. "Blanche Chloe Grant". Retrieved 7 March 2016.
  3. Flynn, Kathryn A. (1995). Treasures on New Mexico Trails : Discover New Deal Art and Architecture. Santa Fe, NM: Sunstone Press. p. 222. ISBN 0865342369.
  4. Nina., Baym (2011). Women writers of the American West, 1833-1927. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. pp. 242–244. ISBN 9780252035975. OCLC 720822663.
  5. "SIRIS – Smithsonian Institution Research Information System". Retrieved 7 March 2016.
  6. "Blanche Chloe Grant". New Mexico Museum of Art. Retrieved 2018-03-03.
  7. Flynn, Kathryn A., Treasures on New Mexico Trails: Discover New Deal Art and Architecture, Sunstone Press, Santa Fe, New Mexico 1995 p. 94
  8. Flynn, Kathryn A. (2012). Public Art and Architecture in New Mexico 1933–1943. ISBN 9780865348813. Retrieved 7 March 2016.


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