Introduction
Blanche Chloe Grant (1874–1948) was an American artist, magazine illustrator and author. She is remembered as a muralist as well as a painter of American Indians. Born in Leavenworth, Kansas, she studied at Vassar College, at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and the Art Student's League. She studied with Howard Pyle and in 1911, along with Ethel Leach and Olive Rush, she was living in Pyle's studio, when he died on a trip to Italy. By 1914 she was established as a magazine illustrator and landscape painter.
Grant became an associate professor in the School of Fine Arts at University of Nebraska in 1916.
Grant came to Taos, NM in 1920 on vacation and decided to settle there permanently. She wrote several books related to the area and edited the Taos Valley News. Her paintings can be found in the Harwood Museum of Art in Taos and New Mexico Museum of Art in Santa Fe.
Murals
Grant produced murals for the New Mexico Technical University library (“Mine”) in Socorro, New Mexico, and for the Taos Presbyterian Church, the latter in 1921. They are no longer extant.Grant was buried at that church.