Lucile Blanch
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Blanch in 1930
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Lucile E. Lundquist December 31, 1895 Hawley, Minnesota, U.S. |
| Died | October 31, 1981 (aged 85) Kingston, New York, U.S. |
| Education | Minneapolis School of Art |
| Known for | Painting |
Lucile E. Blanch, née Lundquist, (aka Lucille Blanch, Lucile Lunquist Blanch, Lucile Lundquist-Blanch, and Lucille Lundquist-Blanch) (December 31, 1895 – October 31, 1981), was an American painter and Guggenheim Fellow.
Lucile Blanch was born in 1895 in Hawley, Minnesota to Charles E. and May E. Lundquist. During World War I, she studied at the Minneapolis School of Art with her future husband Arnold Blanch, and other notable artists like Harry Gottlieb and Adolf Dehn. After 1918, she won a scholarship to study under Boardman Robinson, as part of the Art Students League of New York. She also studied with artists like Kenneth Hayes Miller, Frank Vincent DuMond and Frederick R. Gruger.
While in New York, she married her husband, Arnold Blanch, and they traveled to France to continue their art studies. They later moved to where they helped build the Woodstock Art colony. They divorced in 1935. She was friends with Eugenie Gershoy, who sculpted her at work.
She received the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1933, and from that point on her art was collected and was shown in a number of important galleries, notably the Whitney Museum. She died in 1981 in Kingston, New York.
Murals were produced from 1934 to 1943 in the United States through the Section of Painting and Sculpture, later called the Section of Fine Arts, of the Treasury Department. The murals were intended to boost the morale of the American people suffering from the effects of the Depression by depicting uplifting subjects the people knew and loved. Murals were commissioned through competitions open to all artists in the United States. Almost 850 artists were commissioned to paint 1371 murals, most of which were installed in post offices. 162 of the artists were women. The murals were funded as a part of the cost of the construction of new post offices, with 1% of the cost set aside for artistic enhancements.
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