Nell Blair Walden Blaine (July 10, 1922 Richmond, Virginia - November 14, 1996 New York City) was an American landscape painter and watercolorist.[1]
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She studied at the Richmond School of Art. She moved to New York City in 1942, to study painting with Hans Hofmann. In 1943, she was the youngest member of the American Abstract Artists group. In 1945, she studied with Stanley William Hayter at Atelier 17.
She showed at the Tibor de Nagy Gallery starting in 1953.
She contracted polio in 1959 on Mykonos Island.[2] She used a wheelchair the rest of her life, but rehabilitated the use of her hands to paint.
Her papers are held at Harvard University.[3]
Her work is in the collections of: the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, The Brooklyn Museum, National Academy of Design, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Rose Art Museum, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, and Museum of Contemporary Art.[4]