This biography from the Archives of AskART:
| Born in Honolulu and trained at Stanford University in California, Marguerite Blasingame returned to Hawaii where she became an established sculptor of figural works, many of them bas reliefs in wood and stone. Her depictions were usually sinuous in contour with simplified anatomy.
During the 1930s and 1940s, she was a WPA artist and filled many commissions for architectural panels, some of them very large in size.
She was a member of the Hawaiian Mural Guild. Her work is in many locations in Hawaii including the Honolulu Academy, Library of Hawaii and Moana Park. She is the author of a book titled "A Course in Art Appreciation for the Adult Layman," Stanford University Press.
Source: Edan Hughes, "Artists in California, 1786-1940" |
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Marguerite Blasingame is also mentioned in these AskART essays: Artists who painted Hawaii
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