Background
Blanch, Arnold was born on June 4, 1896 in Mantorville, Minnesota, United States. Son of Louis and Bertha (Adler) Blanch.
Blanch, Arnold was born on June 4, 1896 in Mantorville, Minnesota, United States. Son of Louis and Bertha (Adler) Blanch.
Student Minneapolis School Fine Arts, 1915-1917, Art Students League, New York, 1919-1921.
He was an American modernist painter, etcher, illustrator, lithographer, muralist, printmaker and art teacher. His modernist paintings are associated with the Social Realist movement. After the end of World War I, Lucile and Arnold Blanch moved to New York City and enrolled at the Art Students League of New York, studying with John Sloan, Robert Henri, Kenneth Hayes Miller and Boardman Robinson.
Eventually by 1923 they settled in Woodstock, New York, which was then beginning to become an important art colony for young artists.
During the 1930s in New York, Blanch worked in the World Pet Association on various mural projects, including "The Harvest" at the United States Post Office in Fredonia, New New York Blanch taught at the Art Students League"s branch in Woodstock for several decades from the 1930s until his death in the late 1960s.
His paintings are in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Artist The Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
The Cleveland Museum of Artist
The Whitney Museum of American Artist The Smith College Museum of Artist The Sheldon Museum of Artist
The Woodstock Artists Association and Museum (WAAM).
One of the oldest American artists organizations., and dozens of others
Served in the United States Army, World War. Member Painters, Sculptors, Gravers Society American (former president). American Artists Congress (executive council), Associate American Artists (director), American Watercolor Society.
Married Lucille Lundquist, 1922 (divorced 1939).