American, 1869 - 1958
Greene studied at the Adelphi Academy and at the Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, before going to Paris where she studied with Raphael Colin, among others. In the Paris Salon d'Automnes exhibitions she won a third class medal in 1900, and a gold medal, second class, in 1902. It was in Paris in 1905 that she married Ernest Blumenschein.
Upon the couple's return to New York in 1909, Mary Blumenschein taught at Pratt Institute for a year, while working as an illustrator for Century Magazine, McClure's and the American Magazine, and doing book illustration.
In 19l3, with her husband, she made her first trip to Taos. It was a small inheritance she received that allowed the couple to move permanently to Taos in 1919. She returned to Pratt Institute in the 1920s to study jewelry-making, which was a continuing interest; her jewelry work was exhibited in 1956 at the International Folk Art Museum in Santa Fe.
Mary Blumenschein's awards include a silver medal in the Saint Louis Exposition in 1904, and from the Academy, the Julia A. Shaw Memorial Prize in the winter exhibition of 1915.
Upon the couple's return to New York in 1909, Mary Blumenschein taught at Pratt Institute for a year, while working as an illustrator for Century Magazine, McClure's and the American Magazine, and doing book illustration.
In 19l3, with her husband, she made her first trip to Taos. It was a small inheritance she received that allowed the couple to move permanently to Taos in 1919. She returned to Pratt Institute in the 1920s to study jewelry-making, which was a continuing interest; her jewelry work was exhibited in 1956 at the International Folk Art Museum in Santa Fe.
Mary Blumenschein's awards include a silver medal in the Saint Louis Exposition in 1904, and from the Academy, the Julia A. Shaw Memorial Prize in the winter exhibition of 1915.
