Marie Blanke

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  • partner was Jane Heap The people one met at the Blanke's…the artiest faggots, the grimmest dykes, the dirtiest poets, shabbiest painters, shyest stammering composers, drunkenest actors and most skeletal dancers…' Another online reference notes: 'Jane Heap graduated from Topeka High School on May 28, 1901. In October 1901, at the age of 17, she enrolled in the Art Institute of Chicago. She later became a student at the Lewis Institute in Chicago, where Marie Blanke became her mentor and close friend. Marie Blanke and Heap organized and operated "Blanke and Heap's Nickel Theatre" at the Lewis Institute. Marie Blanke was the "James" to whom Jane Heap refers in her letters to Reynolds in 1908-1909. Jane Heap met Florence Reynolds through Marie Blanke's "Chicago group," a circle of friends which included Esther Blanke, Florence Reynolds, Elsa Koop, and Olive Garnet. The "Chicago group" was comprised of young women from affluent families who shared an interest in the arts.
  • 1879
  • Chicago, Illinois
  • 1961
  • Vermont
  • German
  • 1908: 281 Hampden Court, Chicago, Illinois

    1915: 418 Deming Place, Chicago, Illinois

    1950: 1718 N. LaSalle St., Chicago, Illinois
  • Chicago, Illinois
  • Fine Arts Building, Chicago, Illinois
  • Painter-Oil, Screenprinter, Watercolorist
  • Lake View High School
    School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; student of illustrator Frederick Richardson
    London, England
    Munich and Worpswede art colony, Germany
    Provincetown, Rhode Island
     
  • Array
  • 1898-1941: Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago and Vicinity Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; (35 times);  1903 Reveries

    1909, 1914, 1923: Annual Exhibition of Oil Paintings & Sculpture by American Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

    1911-1924: Annual Exhibition of Water Colors, Pastels and Miniatures by American Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; (5 times)

    November 3-December 6, 1914: American Oil Paintings and Sculpture, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; The Old Gate, oil painting

    1915: Panama-Pacific Exposition, San Francisco, California

    January 8-February 8, 1918: First Exhibit of Work by the Alumni of the Art Institute of Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Clover Time

    March 8-April 5, 1921: Nineteenth Annual Exhibition of Applied Arts, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; decorative panel, wild flowers

    1929: Chicago Gallery Association, Chicago, Illinois (solo)

    March 12-March 26, 1930: Paintings: Selected from the Annual Exhibition of Paintings by Artists of Chicago and Vicinity, Renaissance Society

    July-September 2001: The Land Around Us: Landscape from the Collection of the Illinois State Museum, Illinois Art Gallery, Chicago, Illinois; Flowery Bank, 1928, oil on canvas

    Artists' Guild of Chicago

    Arts Club of Chicago

    Association of Chicago Painters and Sculptors, Chicago, Illinois

    Milwaukee Art Club, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

    Women's Salon, Chicago, Illinois
  • Brauer Museum of Art, Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, Indiana

    Illinois State Museum, Springfield, Illinois

    Union League Club, Chicago, Illinois

    Vanderpoel Collection, Beverly, Illinois
  • Association of Chicago Painters and Sculptors

    Chicago Galleries Association

    Chicago Society of Artists (served as secretary)

    Cordon Club, Chicago, co-founder 1915 and president in the 1950s

    Municipal Art League (served as director)

    National Association of Artists and Craft Workers, Chicago, Illinois

    Woman Artists Salon, Chicago
  • scholarship to School of the Art Institute of Chicago from the Chicago Women's Club

    Gold medal, Association of Chicago Painters and Sculptors

    1920: Rosenwald Prize,  Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

    1922: Butler Prize,  Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  • ?-1943: established art department and taught art, Lewis Institute (Illinois Institute of Technology); taught drawing in 1904.
  • Her father was a Superior Court Judge.

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