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Mary Van Blarcom, schilder, graficus en vakman, is geboren in Newark, New Jersey en studeerde aan Wellesley College. Ze was lid van de National Serigraph Society, waar ze in de raad van trustees diende van 1945 tot 1952, en werd 1e vice-president 1949-51. Zij was ook lid van de National Association of Women Artists, de Artists Equity Association, de American Color Print Society, de New Jersey Artists Association (directeur), en Artists of Today.
Van Blarcom exposeerde veelvuldig tijdens de veertiger jaren in vele belangrijke kunstinstellingen, waaronder: Montclair Art Museum, 1941-1945 en 1947-1951 (prijs, 1948); Society of Independent Artists, 1942-1944, Artists of Today, 1942-1946; Elisabeth Ney museum, 1943, Northwest Prints, 1944, 1946-1949; Laguna Beach Art Association, 1945-1947, 1949, National Association of Women Artists, 1945-1950, (prijs, 1946), Library of Congress, 1946-1947, de reizende expositie van het Museum of Modern Art, 1945-1947, Carnegie Institute, 1947; Serigraph Gallery, 1946, 1951 (solo), American Color Print Society, 1947-1952, Newark Museum, 1947-1948, 1951, California State Library, 1947, 1949; National Serigraph Society, 1949 (prijs), 1950 (prijs), Universiteit van Chili, 1950; New Jersey State Museum, 1950; Philadelphia Art Alliance, 1951, en de Main Gallery, New York, 1952.
Men vindt werk van haar in de collecties van de Newark Openbare Bibliotheek, de Amerikaanse regering, de American Association of University Women, New York Public Library, Tel-Aviv Museum, Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Princeton Print Club, Howard University en het Amerikaanse State Department.
Mary Van Blarcom stierf aan kanker op de jonge leeftijd van 40 jaar, in Point Pleasant Beach, New Jersey.
Corsage, c.1944, Color Serigraph. |
The Moon Is Like a Lemon, c.1945, Color Serigraph. |
Toros, c.1945, Color Serigraph. |
Under the Cross, c.1945, Color Serigraph. |
Man of Cyrene, c.1945, Color Serigraph. |
Surgent Spring, c.1945, Color Serigraph. |
Flower Abstraction, c.1945, Color Serigraph. |
Lilies, c.1945, Color Serigraph. |
Gardenias, c.1945, Color Serigraph. |
Crown of Roses, c.1945, Color Serigraph. |
China Spring, c.1945, Color Serigraph. |
Flower Out of Darkness, c.1945, Color Serigraph. |