City, and the Fort Thomas, Kentucky post office. She also worked free-lance as a photographer for Life magazine. For Life she record the desperate conditions of autoworkers during labor strikes and protests that occurred throughout the U.S. during the formation of automobile worker unions. She and Dimitroff created nearly 50 murals across the United States for religious institutions, schools, hospitals, and businesses. Dimitroff died in 1996 on their farm in Gualala, California. Works Art Bloch worked in many types of media: photography, fresco, woodblock cuts, lithographs, mosaics, egg tempera, watercolor, wood and glass sculpture, terra cotta, portraits in ink, gesso, and oil. Illustrated books She also illustrated numerous children's books, of which the Library of Congress lists: I Want to Fly, by Anita Brenner, (1943) Willie's Walk to Grandmama, by Margaret Wise Brown and Rockbridge Campbell (1944) Keep Singing, Keep Humming: A Collection of Play and Story Songs, by Margaret Bradford Boni (1946) Smart Little Boy and His Smart Little Kitty, by Louise Woodcock (1947) Is it Hard? Is it Easy? by Mary McBurney Green (1948) Everybody Eats, by Mary McBurney Green (1950) Sandpipers, Edith Thacher Hurd (1961) Starfish, Edith Thacher Hurd (1962) Private life Bloch married Dimitroff in 1936 in Flint, Michigan. They had three children; George Ernest Dimitroff, born July 22, 1938, Pencho Bloch Dimitroff, born August 3, 1941, and Sita Dimitroff (Milchev) born December 25, 1943. Dimitroff died in 1996, and was followed by Bloch in 1999; both died on their small farm in Gualala in Northern California. Legacy One grandchild, her namesake, Lucienne Allen, maintains her legacy from the family farm, "Old Stage Studios," in Gualala. References External links Lucienne Bloch on Artsy Columbus Museum of Art Web page on Bloch's 1935 woodcut Land of Plenty'' (click on picture for larger image) Fresco workshop - Lucienne Block and Stephen Pope Dimitroff Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution: Oral History Interview 1909 births 1999 deaths 20th-century American painters 20th-century American photographers 20th-century American women photographers Swiss emigrants to the United States Swiss Jews American muralists American people of Swiss-Jewish descent American women painters École des Beaux-Arts alumni Federal Art Project artists Jewish American artists Women muralists 20th-century American Jews