Biografie von 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 Center, Clearwater, FL, 1950-51; Ohio Univ., Summer School, 1952, 1956; visit. instr., Univ. Minnesota, 1949, 1952; Univ. Hawaii, 1955; Minneapolis Art Sch., 1954; Norton Gal. Art, West Palm Beach, FL, 1961-62; Consultant, Rollins College, 1950. Auth., Methods and Techniques for Gouache Painting, 1946; The Creative Incentive, 1951, and other books; illus., The Humboldt River, 1943, and other books.

Sources: WW66; WW47; Woodstock's Art Heritage; Baigell, Dictionary.

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