Descriptive Summary
McVeigh, Blanche
Blanche McVeigh Prints, ca.
1935
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Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The
University of Texas at Austin
English.
Creator SketchBlanche McVeigh (1895-1970) was a prominent
Texas printmaker and art educator. She studied art
at the University of
Chicago and the
Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts. McVeigh was a
founder of the
Fort Worth School of Fine Arts in 1931 and of the
Fort Worth Artists Guild. She belonged to several artists' groups, such as the
Dallas Print Club, the Society of American Graphic Artists, and the Southern
States Art League and garnered awards from many of them during her career.
Other repositories holding her work are the Library of Congress, the Carnegie
Institute, the Amon Carter Museum, and the Dallas Museum of Art.
Scope and Contents
Prints depict Blanche McVeigh's hometown of
Fort Worth, Texas. They are entitled "Skyline Fort
Worth," "Men Working on West Lancaster," and "Site of First Trading Post-Fort
Worth." Signed in pencil and numbered at lower edge.
No restrictions.
Preferred Citation Blanche McVeigh Prints, ca. 1935, the
Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin.
Index Terms
Subjects
McVeigh, Blanche,
1895-1970--Archives.
Fort Worth (Tex.)--Pictorial
works.
City and town
life--Texas--Fort Worth--Pictorial works.
Courthouses--Texas--Fort
Worth--Pictorial works.
Inventory
3Y144
Prints