Blanche Chloe Grant 1874–1948

“ V ibrant, energetic and committed to self-expression. These three descriptors serve to define an otherwise hard-to-categorize group of women who helped to shape Taos, New Mexico’s artistic legacy.”

– Suzan Campbell and Sandra D’Emilio, “Pioneering Spirits: Early Women Modernists in Taos,” Antiques & Fine Art

“His attraction to grand scale, or ‘bigness,’ and his devotion to ‘beauty,’ or what color and light can do to visually enhance mass, exposed his artistic strategy. His works were inspired by nature but ‘humanized in the studio.’”

– Peter Hassrick, “Edgar Payne: The Scenic Journey,” in Edgar Payne’s Southwest