Blanche Grambs

© Estate of the artist. Photograph and digital image © Delaware Art Museum. Not for reproductio…
Blanche Grambs
© Estate of the artist. Photograph and digital image © Delaware Art Museum. Not for reproduction or publication.

Blanche Grambs

American painter and printmaker, 1916–2010
BiographyBlanche Grambs (1916–2010) was an American artist who is known for her prints depicting the Great Depression, coal miners, the poor, and the unemployed. She trained at the Art Students League in New York under Harry Sternberg. She worked in the Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project during the New Deal, beginning in 1936 and producing over 30 prints for the WPA. She created lithographs and intaglio prints. She married Hugh "Lefty" Miller, and they moved to Paris together. Shortly after their arrival, war broke out, and they moved back to New York, where she continued to work as an artist. Her later work included contributing illustrations to over 30 children's books. Grambs' work is held in many public collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Detroit Institute of Art, the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Baltimore Museum of Art, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum amoung others.
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  • New York
  • Beijing
  • artists
  • female