This is a 12.5" x 9" Original and Vintage lithograph on paper by the important Taos, New Mexico painter and printer Blanche Grant, 1874 - 1948. The image is of a woman holding a candle at a procession at the Ranchos de Taos church. Signed at lower right. Titled at lower left in pencil. Fine condition. Unframed.
The Biography Follows:
Born Leavenworth, Sept. 23, 1874; died Taos, NM, June 19, 1948.
Illustrator. Painter, specialized in landscapes and Native Americans.
Author.
Etcher. Educated in Indianapolis schools, graduate of Vassar College
in 1896, studied at the School of Fine Arts in Boston with William
Paxton, at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts with William
Merritt Chase, at the Art Students League in New York.
She
became part of Howard Pyle's circle of illustrators in Wilmington and was living in Pyle's studio along with Ethel Leach and Olive Rush when Pyle died in Italy in 1911. By 1914 she was established as a magazine illustrator and landscape
painter.
Moved to Lincoln, NB to teach art at the University of
Nebraska from 1916-20. Moved to Taos, NM in 1920 where she became
editor of the Taos Valley News around 1922. Wrote When Old Trails Were New; the Story of Taos (1934) and other books about New Mexico and Kit Carson.
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