Maria Gutierrez Blanchard was born in March of 1881, in Santander, Spain. In 1903, she began studying to become a painter in Madrid. In 1909, Maria won a grant to continue her studies in Paris, at the Academy Vitti (Academie Vitti), where she studied under Hermengildo Anglada Camarasa, and Kees Van Dongen.

While at the Academy, Kees influenced her style and she began to break out of the constraints that she was taught earlier in Spain. It was during this time that she began to experiment with Cubism, after meeting artists Jacques Lipchitz and Juan Gris.

In 1910, while in Paris, Maria won a medal in the National Exhibition of Beautiful Arts and from 1914 to 1916 she taught drawing to select students in Salamanca. In 1916, she returned to Paris and began painting in the Cubist style. By 1920, Maria Blanchard began to return to a more traditional style of painting. Her colors were more poetic and the subjects in her paintings reflected the sadness that Maria felt in her own life.

Her artwork is included in the collections of the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth University, the Fundación Telefónica, the Musée d'Art Moderne in Geneva and Madrid's Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía.

María Gutierrez Blanchard was a Spanish painter who trained in Madrid and Paris. She studied under Emilio Sala and Álvarez de Sotomayor in Madrid and received a scholarship from the Diputación de Santander to study in Paris in 1909. In Paris, she studied under Anglada Camarasa and Kees van Dongen and became part of the Parisian cubist group, developing a cubist stage from 1916 to 1920.

She exhibited in exhibitions organized in Paris and Belgium in the 1920s. Between 1920 and 1932, she returned to a type of figurative painting, although cubist from the compositional point of view. She was both a great painter and a theoretician, organizing gatherings in her Paris apartment where different artists, including Juan Gris, discussed painting and new trends