13 Facts About Lucile Blanch

Lucile Esma Lundquist Blanch was an American artist, and art educator.

Lucile Blanch was noted for the murals she created for the US Treasury Department's Section of Fine Arts during the Great Depression.

At the Minneapolis School of Art, she and future husband Arnold Lucile Blanch studied with notable artists like Harry Gottlieb and Adolf Dehn.

Lucile Blanch was only one of ten students in the country to be awarded full tuition to the Art Students League that year.

Lucile Blanch was friends with Eugenie Gershoy, who sculpted her at work.

In 1937, Lucile Blanch had a solo exhibition of her work at the Milch Galleries.

Later in 1939, Lucile Blanch participated in an exhibition by the American Society of Painters, Sculptors, and Gravers.

In 1938, Lucile Blanch worked with artist Philip Evergood and George Picken in administrating the WPA Project in New York.

From 1938 to 1941, Lucile Blanch was an artist-in-residence at Converse College in Spartanburg, South Carolina, where she continued to teach until she turned 70 in 1965.

Lucile Blanch was commissioned to create post office murals as part of a New Deal program through the Section of Painting and Sculpture, later called the Section of Fine Arts, of the US Treasury Department.

In 1938, Lucile Blanch painted a mural titled Osceola Holding Informal Court with His Chiefs in the post office in Fort Pierce, Florida.

Lucile Blanch died on October 31,1981, in Kingston, New York and is buried in the Woodstock Artists' Cemetery in Woodstock, New York.

Lucile Blanch began her career focusing on realist subjects, but her art became increasingly abstract.