Blanche Fisher Write Laite was an American artist best-known for her illustrations for The Real Mother Goose (Rand McNally 1916).
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Blanche had a brother, Charles Douglas Fisher, who founded a toy compnay, and also a sister Lola Fisher, who was an actress.
She may have been born in Manitowoc, WIsconsin.
Some sources say she died in 1938 at the age of 51. Wikipedia says 1971 but does not give a reference, and this seems unlikely as there is no work from her after the 1920s. Wikimedia also says 1971, and cites the Library of Congress, which gives 1978.
In one blog, Poppa John suggests that Blanche Fisher Wright was really a penname for Milo Winter, who used a similar signature; early editions of The Real Mother Goose had pictures signed MW.
Dan Chapelavy wrote in his art blog:
At this point, I read to my daughter from The Real Mother Goose mostly as an excuse to pour over the illustrations by Blanche Fisher Wright. Elegant and utterly charming, they sit shoulder to shoulder with the work of the great turn-of-the-century illustrators like Edward Penfield and Jesse Wilcox Smith (Philly’s own, Smith, born in Mt. Airy, studied at PAFA under Thomas Eakins and Howard Pyle at the Brandywine School) But what really captivates me about her work is the degree to which, stylistically, they recall the work of Art Nouveau http://www.health-canada-pharmacy.com masters like Alphons Mucha. They share the regal faces, flowing outlines, graphic crispness and posterlike composition. What transforms them into bewitching illustrations is her wonderful animating sense of gesture and flair for scene staging. Given her skill and achievement, her complete anonymity is surprising. Other than a few basic illustration credits, no biographical information exists online. She is absent from Walt Reed’s comprehensive Illustrator in America survey. Although The Real Mother Goose remains in print and easily available, Blanche Fisher Wright, at least for now, seems a near to complete mystery.
