Marie Blanke (1879-1961)
A Bit of Beach, circa 1899
oil on canvas
Collection of Union League Club of Chicago
11.25 x 18.5 inches
Marie Blanke signature
Marie Blanke (1879-1961)
Still Life with Peaches and Blueberries
Marie Blanke (1879-1961)
Gloucester scene
Marie Blanke (1879-1961)
Sand Dunes
Marie Blanke (1879-1961)
Floral Still Life
oil on canvas
26 x 22 inches
Marie Blanke (1879-1961)
Au Sable River, circa 1950
watercolor
13.5 x 11 inches
Marie Blanke (1879-1961)
nautical scenes, 1961
serigraphs
Marie Blanke (1879-1961)
Artist Details
Marie
Elsa
Blanke
Marie Blanke
Blanke
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.