Biography

Blanche McVeigh was an artist, printmaker, and art educator known primarily for her etchings and aquatint work. Born in 1895 in St. Charles, Missouri, McVeigh moved with her family to Fort Worth, TX as a child. Throughout her life, she was an active and influential member of Fort Worth’s community of artists, especially among the Fort Worth Circle. In 1932, McVeigh founded the Fort Worth School of Fine Arts, and the Fort Worth Artists Guild in 1934, with Evaline Sellors. She and a group of fellow women artists founded the Printmakers Guild, later called Texas Printmakers, in 1939. In 1937 she was appointed chair of the Forth Worth Woman's Club Art Department. McVeigh attended the Art Institute of Chicago, the Pennsylvania Academy for Fine Arts, the Art Student League of N.Y., and spent 1927 in Europe learning what would become her preferred medium of aquatint. She exhibited widely throughout Texas and elsewhere, including in the Greater Texas & Pan-American Exposition in 1937, the World’s Fair in 1939, the Library of Congress, the Connecticut Museum of Fine Arts, among others, and her etchings of African American culture were particularly popular with collectors. In the 1950’s, her prints were included in a collection presented at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and her first retrospective was held at the Fort Worth Art Association. McVeigh died in 1970 and a large exhibition of her prints was held later that year at the Electra Carlin Gallery.

Sources: https://legacy.lib.utexas.edu/taro/utcah/01130/01130-P.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blanche_McVeigh https://texaspaintings.com/b-mcveigh.htm

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