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Blanche E. Colman

1874 - 1959, Westwood, Massachusetts

BiographyRockport, MA resident, artist, feminist, interior decorator and art teacher at Boston University - her will established a fund to grant scholarships to New England area art students
Obituary in the Boston Globe, 5 February 1959
Resident of Boston and Rockport. Trained at Boston Museum School of Fine Arts and the American Academy of Archaeology, Rome and with Woodbury, Hibbard, Ross, Hawthornem, and Heuche. The first woman interior decorator in Boston, she was a noted collector of pewter, and enjoyed mountain climbing as a hobby. She had scaled several of the Canadian Rockies and peaks in Yosemite. For 13 years she was a director of the department of fine arts at Boston University.
Miss Colman was a member of St. Augustine Art Assoc. of Florida, North Shore and Rockport Arts Assn, Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts, Washington Water Color Club, Copley Society, Springfield Art League, Portland Society of Art, Portland Society of Art, and National Assn. of Women Painters and Sculptors and master of the Arts and Crafts Society of Boston

Year Book of the Architectural League of New York, and Catalogue of the ... Annual Exhibition, Volume 24, 1909 - noted as the designer for L. Haberstroh & Son at 647 Boylston Street, Boston
The Annual Report of the Society of Arts & Crafts of Boston, Massachusetts, Volumes 16-21, 1919 listed as a designer at Mass Ave

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