Along the Hudson

This view depicts small, tranquil farms nestled into the landscape around Woodstock, New York. The simplified forms and inconsistent perspective reflect Blanch's interest in American folk painting. The style of his work is characteristic of much of the art produced in Woodstock during the 1930s.

Blanch first came to the thriving Woodstock artists' colony in 1919, when he attended a summer school organized by the Art Students League. While there he studied printmaking with Bolton Brown, who was instrumental in popularizing lithography in the 1910s and 1920s.