 May Nissen (Elizabeth) Blos is primarily known as Maybelle Nissen Elizabeth Blos
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| A WPA designer, illustrator, and painter, May Blos, whose proper name
was Maybelle, was born in Sebastopol, California, and graduated from
the University of California, Berkeley. She then traveled in
Europe on a scholarship, which took her to Munich where she studied
with Hans Hofmann and Moritz Heymann. In Munich, she met her
future husband, artist Peter Blos, whom she married in 1930. She
studied briefly in Paris, but in 1931 returned to the United States
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