artist
Arnold Blanch is most known to us for his intimate scenes of American life. He was an active artist who painted murals for the WPA throughout most of the 1930's, and was very active in the Woodstock Artists Association. Blanch was also a highly respected teacher, lecturer, author and visiting critic. Unlike other artists, Blanch seemed disinterested in many of the avant-garde styles of the period. He held true to his own approach that artists should create from their own experiences and environment, and he developed an artistic style that was uniquely his own.
Blanch studied at the Art Students league with Robert Henri and John Sloan. He taught and lectured all over the country, he was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1933, and served as President of the Painters, Sculptors and Gravers Society.
Memberships
Guggenheim Fellowship 1933
Woodstock Artists Association
American Artists Congress
Association of American Artists
American Watercolor Society
Painters, Sculptors & Gravers Society, President
Exhibitions
San Francisco Art Association, Prize 1931
Society of Independent Artists
California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Prize 1931
Art Institute of Chicago 1930-31, Medal 1932, 1933-43
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts 1929-1937, 1938 Medal, 1939-1945, 1948-1952, 1953, 1960, 1962
Corcoran Gallery 1928-1961
Carnegie Institute 1938, Medal
Harris Prize, Chicago 1932
Golden Gate Exposition, 1939
Worlds Fair, New York 1939
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Whitney Museum of American Art 1931-1946, 1948-1952
Museum of Modern Art
Silvermine Guild Artists, 1961 Prize
Museums and Public Collections
Brooklyn Museum
Butler Art Institute
Carnegie Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Denver Art Museum
Detroit Institute of Art
Library of Congress
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Ogunquit Museum of American Art
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Whitney Museum of American Art
Description
Blanch held true to his own approach that artists should create from their own experiences and environment, and he developed an artistic style that was uniquely his own. The Waterfront is his own obscure and abstracted interpretation of a busy scene at the water's edge.
provenance
Private Collection, Guilford, Connecticut