Arnold Blanch Paintings
American, 1896-1968
Born in Mantorville, Minnesota, Arnold Blanch was a painter of scenes of social-realist American life with mystical overtones and a child-like seeming style. He was also a highly respected teacher, lecturer and visiting critic and was a spokesman for the art colony in Woodstock, New York. He was married to Lucile Blanch.
Unlike many of his generation, he seemed disinterested in avant-garde styles and held to his own approach with canvases that were happy and somewhat romantic in subject matter. In the 1930s, he was a muralist for the Federal Art Project and did work in post offices in Fredonia, New York and Norwalk, Connecticut.
He first studied at the Minneapolis School of Arts, and from 1921 to 1922 was at the Art Students League in New York City, studying with Kenneth Hayes Miller, John Sloan, and Robert Henri. He also studied with Boardman Robinson, whose invitation he accepted to teach in Colorado Springs at the Colorado Fine Arts Center school. He took seriously their assertions that an artist should paint from his own experiences and environment.
He was a member of the American Artists Congress, the Association of American Artists, the American Watercolor Society, and the Painters, Sculptors, Gravers Society of America, which he also served as president.to
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Artist: Arnold Blanch
African American Sitting Portrait
By Arnold Blanch
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Signed lower right.
Born in Mantorville, Minnesota, Arnold Blanch was a painter of scenes of social-realist American life with mystical overtones and a child-like seeming style. He was also a highly respected teacher, lecturer and visiting critic and was a spokesman for the art colony in Woodstock, New York. He was married to Lucile Blanch...
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Mid-20th Century Realist Arnold Blanch Paintings
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About the Artist:
Arnold Blanch was an illustrator, printmaker, teacher and painter. He was primarily known for his landscape, genre, figurative, realist, and surrealist paintings. Born in Manterville, Minnesota, he was encouraged to study art by his mother, an amateur artist. He began studying at the Minneapolis Art Institute in 1914. In 1916, he received a scholarship to study in New York at the Art Students League. In New York, he studied under Robert Henri, Francis Luis Mora, Boardman Robinson, John Sloan, and Kenneth Hayes Miller.
In 1919, Blanch arrived in Woodstock, New York to study at the Art Students League summer school. He married his fellow student Lucile Lundquist, and they settled in Woodstock in 1922 after traveling to France for a year. Blanch remained in Woodstock for more than forty years, until his death. He was an important figure in the Woodstock Artists Association, as he devoted much of his time to maintaining financial and moral support for the Association.
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Arnold BLANCH (1896-1968)
Birth place: Mantorville, MN
Death place: near Woodstock, NY
Addresses: Woodstock, NY
Profession: Painter, graphic artist, illustrator, writer, teacher, lecturer, designer
Studied: Minneapolis Sch. Art, 1916-17; ASL, 1919-21, with Kenneth Hayes Miller, John Sloan, Henri
Exhibited: S.Indp.A.; SFAA, 1931 (prize); CPLH, 1931 (prize); AIC, 1930-31, 1932 (med.), 1933-43; PAFA, 1929-37, 1938 (med.), 1939-45, 1948-1952, 1953, 1960, 1962; CI, 1938 (med.); Domesday Press, 1945 (prize); Corcoran Gal, 1928-61; GGE 1939; WFNY 1939; MMA; Butler AI; WMAA, 1931-46, 1948-52; Nat. Ceramic Exhib., 1949 1951 (prizes); MoMA; VMFA; LOC; solos: New York, 1954, 1958, 1959, 1961; Dupont Mus., Art-USA, 1959 (prize); Artists of the Upper Hudson, 1960 (prize); Norton Art Gal., West Palm Beach, 1961 (prize); Silvermine Gld. Artists, 1961 (prize); Harris Prize, Chicago, 1932; Phila. Artists All.; Salons of Am.
Member: Guggenheim Fellowship, 1933; Woodstock AA.
Work: WMAA; MMA; CMA; Colorado Springs FAC; CPLH; Cranbrook Acad. Art; Detroit IA; Univ. Nebraska; CAM; Denver AM; Butler AI; Encyclopaedia Britannica; Univ. Arizona; Dupont Mus., Fredericksburg, VA; Munson-Williams-Proctor, Utica, NY; Lowe Gal., Miami, FL; Tweed Mus., Duluth, MN; PAFA; LOC; BM; CI; Gulf Coast FAC, Clearwater, FL; Univ. Minnesota; Woodstock Artists Assoc. WPA murals, USPOs, in Fredonia (NY), Norwalk (CT), and Columbus (WI)
Comments: Realist artist, member of the Woodstock art colony. WPA artist, 1930s. He was married to artist Doris Lee. Position: instr., Calif. Sch. FA, 1930-31; ASL, 1935-39, summer, 1947-52, summer, Woodstock, NY, 1950-61; Colorado Springs FA Center, 1939-41; Michigan State Univ., 1944; Gulf Coast Art...
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