 In 2013 the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture acquired Self Portrait with Checkered Scarf.“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 acquisition of Blache’s self-portrait helps fulfill our goal of owning and exhibition a stylistically, regionally, and culturally diverse array of contemporary art by African-American artists.” After featuring the young artists in group exhibitions alongside Edgar Degas, Mary Cassatt, James McNeil Whistler and other heralded 19th Century artists,[3] Island Weiss Gallery in New York hosted the 24 year olds first solo exhibition.