Blanche McVeigh

An accomplished printmaker, McVeigh was born in Missouri and grew up in Texas. She helped found the Fort Worth School of Fine Arts and the Fort Worth Artists Guild. In the 1920s she worked as a commercial artist and ran an advertising agency in Fort Worth. She spent summers studying at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the Art Institute of Chicago, and also attended the Art Students League and learned aquatint in Europe.

McVeigh's works are in the permanent collections of the Library of Congress, Smithsonian Institution, Dallas Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Princeton University, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Old Jail Art Center, and Amon Carter Museum of American Art.