Robert Blanchard

Robert “Bob” Blanchard was born in Quincy, MA. in 1914, and grew up in the Massachusetts area. He went to high school at Westboro High and learned to draw at the Worcester Art Museum. During WWII, Bob joined the Coast Guard in California and was later sent to work on films in support of the war effort with Disney. After the war Bob worked as an illustrator and Art Director for several publishing companies in NYC. He worked as Art Director for WDSU radio in New Orleans, LA and for a TV station in FL. Bob eventually returned to NYC where he worked for many years for Ballantine Books and eventually he settled in the Hudson Valley area where he had homes in Rosendale, High Falls and Stone Ridge. Bob painted for many years both while employed and late into his retirement. Bob passed in 1993 leaving his wife Winnie and his daughter Joanne.