Discipline: Visual Art – painting

Charlotte Blass

Discipline: Visual Art – painting
MacDowell Fellowships: 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1948
A painter and illustrator, Charlotte Blass (1908-1981) became the art director of World Petroleum Magazine in New York City. She was born in Orange, New Jersey and studied at the National Academy of Design with Charles Hawthorne and at the Art Students League with George Luks. She exhibited at the National Academy, the Pennsylvania Academy, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Provincetown Art Association. Painting subjects included Native Americans, landscapes and scenes of Texas. She spent the last several years of her life in El Paso.

Studios

New Hampshire

Charlotte Blass worked in the New Hampshire studio.

New Hampshire Studio, originally named Peterborough Studio, was given to MacDowell by Mr. and Mrs. William Schofield, Mrs. H. A. Chamberlain, Mrs. Andrew Draper, and Miss Ruth Cheney. The studio was renamed in 1943. The Gilbert Verney Foundation established an endowed maintenance fund in 1990, and a bequest in memory of MacDowell Fellow Victor Candell underwrote the…

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