Blumenschein, Mary Shepard Greene, 1869-1958

Mary Greene Blumenschein was born in 1869. She lived and painted in Paris at the turn of the 20th century where she won the Paris Salon Third Medal in 1900. She became the second woman and first American to win the Paris Salon Second Medal in 1902. In 1905, she married Ernest Leonard Blumenschein in Paris. They worked together as illustrators until 1919 when they moved permanently to Taos, New Mexico. In 1922, she gave up painting to study jewelry at the Pratt Institute in New York. She continued working in that field until her death. She returned to painting from 1929 through 1931.

From the guide to the Mary Greene Blumenschein Collection, 1900-1958, (The Palace of the Governors, Fray Angélico Chávez History Library.)