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Blanche Adele Ostertag (August 27, 1872 – November 13, 1915) was an American decorative artist. She is best remembered for her decorative painting and delight in children as subjects. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, she first studied for one month at the St. Louis Museum of Fine Arts in 1892 and then moved to Paris. At the Académie Julian, she was a pupil of Rodolphe Julian, Jean-Paul Laurens, Constant, and also studied with Raphael Collin, Léon-Augustin Lhermitte, and Delance. Her awards include the Revell prize, for school room decoration, St. Louis. Her work includes mural decorations: "Sailing of the Claremont," New Amsterdam Theatre, New York; "Old Indian Fort," Northwestern Railway Station, Green Bay, Wisconsin; "Everlasting Covenant" (5 panels), "The Songs of David" (3 panels), and mosaics, Husser House, Chicago; Illustrations for "Old Songs for Young America." She exhibited in Champ de Mars Salons (1895, 1896) and was a member of the Society of Western Artists. (From Wikipedia) More about Blanche Ostertag:
| | Books by Blanche Ostertag: ![[Info]](https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/info.gif) Ostertag, Blanche, illust.: Heroines That Every Child Should Know: Tales for Young People of the World's Heroines of All Ages (New York: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1908), ed. by Hamilton Wright Mabie and Kate Stephens (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)- Ostertag, Blanche, illust.: Myths That Every Child Should Know: A Selection of the Classic Myths of All Times for Young People (New York: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1906), ed. by Hamilton Wright Mabie (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
Additional books by Blanche Ostertag in the extended shelves:![[X-Info]](https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/infouc.gif) Ostertag, Blanche: The eagle's shadow (Doubleday, Page & Company, 1904), also by James Branch Cabell, Will Grefé, and Page & Company Doubleday (page images at HathiTrust)- Ostertag, Blanche: Fairy tales every child should know; a selection of the best fairy tales of all times and of all authors (Doubleday, Page & Company, 1907), also by Hamilton Wright Mabie (page images at HathiTrust)
- Ostertag, Blanche: Heroes and fairies : tales every child should know : a selection of the best hero tales and fairy tales of all times (The Christian Herald, 1907), also by Hamilton Wright Mabie (page images at HathiTrust)
- Ostertag, Blanche: Heroes every child should know : tales for young people of all the world's heroes in all ages (Doubleday, Page & Co., 1913), also by Hamilton Wright Mabie (page images at HathiTrust)
- Ostertag, Blanche: Heroes every child should know : tales for young people of the world's heroes in all ages (Doubleday, Page, 1907), also by Hamilton Wright Mabie (page images at HathiTrust)
- Ostertag, Blanche: Memories; a story of German love from the German of Max Müller (A.C. McClurg & Co., 1902), also by F. Max Müller and George P. Upton (page images at HathiTrust)
- Ostertag, Blanche: Poems that every child should know; a selection of the best poems of all times for young people (Doubleday, Page & company, 1913), also by Mary Elizabeth Burt (page images at HathiTrust)
- Ostertag, Blanche: The stained glass lady : an idyl (A.C. McClurg & Co., 1906), also by Blanche Elizabeth Wade, Mass.) University Press (Cambridge, and A.C. McClurg & Co (page images at HathiTrust)
- Ostertag, Blanche: World-famed stories and legends : a selection of the best stories and legends for young people in two parts (Christian Herald, 1908), also by Hamilton Wright Mabie (page images at HathiTrust)
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