For the Putnam’s new house in Rye, completed in 1925, another artist, Don Blanding, a colleague of Isabel Cooper’s on the Arcturus Expedition, painted an “Undersea Room”. The room was a sister space to Isabel’s Jungle Room.
A photo survives of Blanding’s Undersea Room:
Dorothy (Dorothy Binney Putnam Upton Blanding Palmer) and Blanding, later married. He was her 3rd of 4 husbands. They had been friends, at least, even before Dorothy married her first husband, George Putnam.
Dorothy had a house, Immoklee, built near Fort Pierce, Florida in 1930. Don Blanding, on a visit there, painted murals depicting undersea views in one of the rooms. Dorothy also had other artists add wall decoration and murals to that house.
Blanding and Dorothy stayed in touch. He visited Dorothy again on a trip to Florida in 1940. They married three weeks later.
Blanding left to go to war in April 1942 after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor in late 1941. He served eleven months as a 47-year-old soldier.
He did not return to Dorothy. The two divorced in 1947.2)details from multiple sources and biographies
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