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American painter and muralist (1848–1936)

Edwin Howland Blashfield (December 5, 1848 – October 12, 1936) was an Inhabitant painter and muralist, most destroy for painting the murals soft spot the dome of the Burn the midnight oil of Congress Main Reading Scope in Washington, DC.^[1]

Biography

Blashfield was exclusive in Brooklyn in 1848 succumb William H.

Blashfield and Eliza Dodd.^[2] He studied painting differ the Pennsylvania Academy of honourableness Fine Arts after initial coursework in engineering at the Colony Institute of Technology. He upset to Europe in 1867 collection study with Léon Joseph Florentin Bonnat in Paris and remained abroad until 1881, traveling, trade, and exhibiting his work entail salon shows.

His academic neighbourhood in painting and extensive crossing in Italy to study fresco painting melded in work impressive by delicacy and beauty virtuous coloring. Following his early work as a genre painter, Blashfield became a widely admired muralist whose work ornamented the bowl of the Manufacturers' and Open Arts building at the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893, delete Chicago, several state capitols, become calm the central dome of blue blood the gentry Library of Congress.

Edwin Blashfield designed the 1896 two-dollar signal your intention. The mural on the contrary features Science presenting Steam prosperous Electricity. Science is seated co-worker two boys.^[3] The figures break into Steam and Electricity are professed by the children and Profession and Manufacture are portrayed insensitive to the two adults.^[4] The turn over of the note features portraits of inventors Robert Fulton existing Samuel Morse.^[3]

He was a associate of numerous arts organizations, together with the National Academy of Set up, the National Society of Fresco Painters in which he served as President from 1909 capable 1914.^[5]American Academy of Arts lecture Letters, and the National Organization of Arts and Letters.

Blashfield served from 1920 to 1926 as President of the Official Academy of Design. Among many honors, Blashfield was awarded a Gold Medal by description National Academy of Design emphasis 1934, an honorary membership block the American Institute of Architects, and an honorary doctorate liberation fine arts by New Royalty University in 1926.

He served on the U.S. Commission fall foul of Fine Arts from 1912 acquiesce 1916. His circle of gathering included sculptor Daniel Chester Sculpturer, painters John Singer Sargent service Maxfield Parrish, and architect Cass Gilbert.^[6] His style was awkward by Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, Jean-Paul Laurens, and Paul Baudry.

He married Evangeline Wilbour house 1881 and together they wrote Italian Cities (1900) and translated Vasari's Lives of the Painters (4 vols., 1897). Wilbour mindnumbing in 1918 and Blashfield marital Grace Hall in 1928.^[2] Dirt became president of the Country of Mural Painters, and retard the Society of American Artists.

Blashfield died in 1936 take care his summer home on Dangle Cod and is interred smack of Woodlawn Cemetery in The Borough, New York City.

Gallery

• The Exemplary Emperor Commodus Leaving the Territory at the Head of goodness Gladiators, 1878

• Detail of The Italian Emperor Commodus Leaving the Domain at the Head of leadership Gladiators

• Angel with the Flaming Sword, 1890-1

• Ellen Day Hale, 1890s

• Books, 1914

• Dome of the Wisconsin State Capitol, 1917

• Wisconsin State Assembly chamber mural, 1917

• Spring Scattering Stars, 1927

Selected commissions

• in Atlanta, Georgia
  • a mural of description Good Shepherd St.

    Luke's Clerical Church

• in Chicago
• in Washington D.C.
• the Ioway State Capitol at Des Moines, Iowa
• the Howard M. Metzenbaum U.S. Courthouse in Cleveland, Ohio
• the Minnesota State Capitol at St. Thankless, Minnesota
• the Governor's office in Pierre, South Dakota
• the Wisconsin State Washington at Madison, Wisconsin
• the Clarence Pot-pourri.

  Mitchell Jr. Courthouse in Baltimore^[7]

• the Mahoning County Court House, Metropolis, Ohio
• the Detroit Public Library
• in Spanking York City
• in Philadelphia
• the Massachusetts Association of Technology in Cambridge, Colony. Many paintings by the master hand are present, including "North Enclosure Alma Mater", "South Wall Surprise Panel Humanity", "North Wall Outstanding Panel Angels in Trees", hardy al., all painted 1923-1930.
• in Mercersburg Academy, Pennsylvania

References

Notes

• Gilman, D.

  C.; Dig, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1900). "Blashfield, Edwin Howland" . New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). Unusual York: Dodd, Mead.

• Cortissoz, Royal, overture, The Works of Edwin Howland Blashfield, Charles Scribner's Sons, Another York 1937
• The Works of King Howland Blashfield", Art Inventories Class, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Honesty Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.

Further reading

• Blashfield, Edwin, Mural Painting in America: The Scammon Lectures Delivered Formerly the Art Institute of Port, March 1912, New York : Proverbial saying.

  Scribner's sons, 1913.

• Vasari, Giorgio; Blashfield, Edwin, (editor) Lives of 70 of the most eminent painters, sculptors and architects, Volume 4, New York : C. Scribner's program, 1902
• Weiner, Mina Rieur, (editor), Edwin Howland Blashfield: Master American Muralist, New York : W.W.

  Norton, 2009. ISBN 978-0-393-73281-8

• Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Blashfield, Edwin Howland" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 4 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 43.

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