20th Century Influential Women in Art

Blanche Mary Grambs, born 1916, Graphic Artist
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Grambs was driven by her social conscience and conviction that artists could actively fight societyal ills. Grambs wanted to show the bleakest reality during the Depression Era.  Her works are created images of miners, industrial workers the jobless as well as the homeless.
No Work

No Work, 1935.
Blanche Grambs, born 1916.
Lithograph. Printed at the Art Students League by Will Barnet.
LC-USZC4-6574
© Blanche Mary Grambs. (22)

The defeated figure portrayed in No Work exhibits the emphasis Blanche Grambs' teacher Harry Sternberg placed on the depiction of the rawness of life during the Depression. Born in Beijing, China, to American parents, Grambs arrived in New York in 1934 with a full scholarship to attend the Art Students League. In 1936 she joined the Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration, earning enough money to maintain her studio on Fourteenth Street, an area where many radicals congregated.

  

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