Died 1948 | ||
Books When Old Trails Were New: The, Doña Lona: A Story of O, Taos Indians | ||
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.
Grant was the author of Taos Indians (1925), When Old Trails Were New: The Story of Taos (1934), and Dona Lona.
“Blanche Grant was brought to the University of Nebraska School of Fine Arts in 1916 to become an Associate Professor in the Art Department.”
Grant came to Taos, NM in 1920 on vacation and decided to settle there permanently. Her work can be found in the Harwood Museum of Art in Taos.
Murals
Grant produced murals for the New Mexico Technical University library (“Mine”) in Socorro, New Mexico, and for the Taos Presbyterian Church, the latter in 1921. They are no longer extant. Grant was buried at that church.