Grant, Blanche C. (Blanche Chloe), 1874-1948

Blanch Chloe Grant (1874-1948) was born in Leavenworth, Kansas in 1874, daughter of Willard Webster Grant (Harvard A.B. 1869) and Mercy Ann Parsons Grant. She was a graduate of Vassar College (1896), and studied art at the Boston Museum School of Fine Arts, the Pennsylvania Academy, and at The Art League in New York. She became an established magazine illustator and landscape painter in Wilmington, Delaware, and in 1920 moved to Taos, New Mexico and became an author and editor of books on Taos and other areas of the Southwest. Some of her many books were: Kit Carson's own story of his life, On hundred years ago in old Taos, Taos today and Taos Indians. She also painted Native Americans extensively until her death in June of 1948.

From the guide to the Papers for, The forty seventh star - New Mexico, 1948., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University)

Blanch Chloe Grant (1874-1948) was an artist and an author and editor of books on Taos and other areas of the Southwest.

From the description of Papers for The forty seventh star - New Mexico, 1948. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 79463876