Gustave Blache III (/ˈɡʌstɑːv ˈblɑːʃ/ GUS-tahv BLAHSH;[1] born 1977) is an American figurative artist from New Orleans, Louisiana, currently residing in Brooklyn, New York.

), a selective visual and performing arts high school with notable alumni such as jazz musicians Branford, Wynton and Jason Marsalis and actor Wendell Pierce.

Savannah author Aberjhani featured Blache's painting, The Art Spirit, as the original cover for his book, I Made My Boy Out of Poetry.

In 2007, Blache appeared in the documentary film Colored Frames that recounts the influences, inspirations and experiences of African-American artists in the art world over the past 50 years.

[4] Colored Frames also featured artists Benny Andrews and Ed Clark along with influential artdealers and scholars June Kelly, Danny Simmons and Mary Schmidt Campbell.

[6] “The painting is part of a series created by Blache to study the effects of color, light, and shadow on the human face,” says NMAAHC Curator, Tuliza Fleming.

[4] That same summer Woodward Gallery's Paper 5 exhibition displayed Blache's work alongside paintings by Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, Jean Michel Basquiat, and other notable Post-War artists.

Those series’ included The Curtain Cleaners, The Mop Makers, Leah Chase: Paintings by Gustave Blache III, and Simon Parkes Art Conservation (SPAC).

[6] “The painting is part of a series created by Blache to study the effects of color, light, and shadow on the human face,” says NMAAHC Curator, Tuliza Fleming.

The scholarship covers half the tuition for two students from Louisiana chosen to attend the School of Visual Arts in New York City.

The 20 small oil paintings that comprised the series detailed the day-to-day activities 92-year-old Chef Leah Chase encounters from early morning prep work to greeting guests in the dining room.

In his essay, Richard Anthon Lewis, PhD writes, "The combination of Blache's artistic style with an established and honored subject in Leah Chase is a contemporary extension of both classical French and American Realism."