received Visual Arts Fellowships from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in 1943 and 1946, which supported her training in New York with Hofmann and Hayter, respectively. Life magazine featured Blaine as one of five young American "women artists in ascendance" in their May 13, 1957 issue. In 1973, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts honored Blaine with a solo exhibition that surveyed more than a decade of her work. In 1980, Blaine was elected into the National Academy of Design as an associate member, and became a full member in 1982. Her papers are held at Harvard University. In 1986, Blaine received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Women's Caucus for Art. In 1996, the year of her death, Blaine received the Leslie Cheek Award for Outstanding Presentation in the Arts from William and Mary concurrent with a retrospective of her work at the Muscarelle Museum of Art. Exhibitions 2019 Nell Blaine - selected works. On view at MoMa Kasmin Gallery: “Painters of the east End”, featuring selected works by Nell Blaine. 2016 Will You Be My Valentine?, Caldwell Gallery Hudson, Hudson Nell Blaine: Selected Works, Tibor de Nagy, New York 2012 Nell Blaine: A Glowing Order: Printings and Watercolors at Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY 2007 Nell Blaine: Image and Abstraction, Paintings and Drawings 1944-1959 at Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY 2004 Nell Blaine: Selected Works at Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY 2003 Nell Blaine: Artist in the World: Work from the 1950s at Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY The Jane Street Gallery: Celebrating New York's First Artist Cooperative at Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY Nell Blaine: Abstract Paintings and Works on Paper at Valerie Carberry Gallery, Chicago, IL Nell Blaine/ Theresa Pollak at Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, VA 2001 Nell Blaine: Sensations of Nature at Cape Ann Historical Museum, Gloucester, MA, and Marsh Art Gallery, Richmond, VA Nell Blaine: The Abstract Work at Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY 1998 Shattering the Southern Stereotype: Jack Beal, Nell Blaine, Dorothy Gillespie, Sally Mann, Cy Twombly at Longwood Center for the Visual Arts, Farmville, VA 1996 Nell Blaine at Muscarelle Museum of Art at William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA 1987 Nell Blaine at Fischbach Gallery, New York, NY 1985 Nell Blaine: Paintings, Drawings, and Etchings at Reynolds/Minor Gallery, Richmond, VA 1973 Nell Blaine at Virginia Museum of Fine Arts,