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An example of work by Josephine Mildred Blanch
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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
| | Born in Texas on July 8, 1864. In 1886 Blanch was a pupil of Virgil Williams in San Francisco at the School of Design. One of her classmates at that school was Mary DeNeale Morgan with whom she became a lifelong friend. The two young women were members of the Pacific Coast Women's Press Ass'n and made their first trip to Carmel with that group. Blanch opted to remain on the Monterey Peninsula and for 30 years was the curator of the Del Monte Hotel Art Gallery. The gallery, which specialized in exhibiting works by local artists, was the most important gallery in northern California after the earthquake destroyed most of San Francisco in 1906. She wrote extensively for the Del Monte Weekly, and her "Barbizon Revisited" (a history of art on the Monterey Peninsula) made her well known in California. When not busy with her writing, she painted portraits, still lifes, and landscapes. After restoring one of Monterey's old adobes, she later sold it to writer John Steinbeck. A spinster, Blanch died in Carmel, CA on Nov. 8, 1951. Exh: Calif. State Fair, 1891-1900; SFAA, 1916; Calif. Statewide (Santa Cruz), 1928. | Source:
Edan Hughes, "Artists in California, 1786-1940"
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