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. By 1914 she was established as a magazine illustrator and landscape painter.[1]

Grant was the author of Taos Indians (1925), When Old Trails Were New: The Story of Taos (1934), and Dona Lona.[2]

“Blanche Grant was brought to the University of Nebraska School of Fine Arts in 1916 to become an Associate Professor in the Art Department.”[3]

Grant came to Taos, NM in 1920 on vacation and decided to settle there permanently.[4] Her work can be found in the Harwood Museum of Art in Taos.[5]

Murals

Grant produced murals for the New Mexico Technical University library (“Mine”) in Socorro, New Mexico,[6] and for the Taos Presbyterian Church, the latter in 1921. They are no longer extant. Grant was buried at that church.[7]

References

  1. ↑ Samuels, Peggy; Samuels, Harold (1985). Samuels' Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West. USA: Book Sales Inc. p. 193. ISBN 1555210147.
  2. ↑ "Search LibraryThing". Retrieved 7 March 2016.
  3. ↑ "Blanche Chloe Grant". Retrieved 7 March 2016.
  4. ↑ Flynn, Kathryn A. (1995). Treasures on New Mexico Trails : Discover New Deal Art and Architecture. Santa Fe, NM: Sunstone Press. p. 222. ISBN 0865342369.
  5. ↑ "SIRIS – Smithsonian Institution Research Information System". Retrieved 7 March 2016.
  6. ↑ Flynn, Kathryn A., Treasures on New Mexico Trails: Discover New Deal Art and Architecture , Sunstone Press, Santa Fe, New Mexico 1995 p. 94
  7. ↑ "Public Art and Architecture in New Mexico 1933–1943". Retrieved 7 March 2016.


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