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home a focal point for art and music in their community. Together they had three children: Milo
Blanchard Williams (1898–1960), Lavinius LaSalle Williams (1900–1976), and Clorette Scully Williams (1910–1979). Blanchard participated in the Exhibit of Woman's Work in the Louisiana State Department at
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Blanchard developed her own style in landscapes, particularly in her orange-skied atmospheric
Louisiana tidewater scenes and her cabin scenes. The cabin scenes can be classed with Walker, Rudolph, Andrieu, and Molinary. Blanchard generally signed her paintings with a small B.B. Blanche married the
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Orleans, La. Furthermore, Giroux intermittently lived in the Blanchard home. As part of the teaching techniques, Blanche Blanchard and the other amateur artist would paint the background, the artist-teacher would paint the picture or main subject and the student would sign the painting.
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where she copied and created master studies of the painting in the gallery. Many artists create master paintings at some point in their education career. In 1897, the
Corcoran Gallery of Art opened a new building that had enough space for both a gallery and a school of art.
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Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition in 1884 to 1885. In the later years of Blanchard's life, she and her husband organized and directed the Literary and Musical Club of New Orleans. Blanchard was an early member of the
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Blanche Blanchard met President Grover Cleveland and left quite the impression on him. The presidential administration of the time commissioned Blanchard to paint a portrait of President Cleveland for the
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Confederate Army. Blanchard was known for being a musician, a poet, an actress, and a painter. She considered herself an accomplished harpist, soprano singer, and poet.
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In the early to mid 1900s it was fashionable to take art lessons from artists and to patronize them. Blanche
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Blanchard moved back to New Orleans to live in her parents’ home shortly after completion of the painting of President Cleveland.
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