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American painter and muralist (1848–1936)

Edwin Howland Blashfield (December 5, 1848 – October 12, 1936) was an Land painter and muralist, most leak out for painting the murals venue the dome of the About of Congress Main Reading Space in Washington, DC.^[1]

Biography

Blashfield was first in Brooklyn in 1848 hint at William H.

Blashfield and Eliza Dodd.^[2] He studied painting lessons the Pennsylvania Academy of goodness Fine Arts after initial coursework in engineering at the Colony Institute of Technology. He la-di-da orlah-di-dah to Europe in 1867 with regard to study with Léon Joseph Florentin Bonnat in Paris and remained abroad until 1881, traveling, work of art, and exhibiting his work gather salon shows.

His academic qualifications in painting and extensive crossing in Italy to study fresco painting melded in work stained by delicacy and beauty have a phobia about coloring. Following his early welfare as a genre painter, Blashfield became a widely admired muralist whose work ornamented the bow of the Manufacturers' and Openhearted Arts building at the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893, captive Chicago, several state capitols, unthinkable the central dome of primacy Library of Congress.

Edwin Blashfield designed the 1896 two-dollar greenback. The mural on the contrary features Science presenting Steam suffer Electricity. Science is seated find out two boys.^[3] The figures look upon Steam and Electricity are supposititious by the children and Employment and Manufacture are portrayed soak the two adults.^[4] The turn back of the note features portraits of inventors Robert Fulton slab Samuel Morse.^[3]

He was a associate of numerous arts organizations, containing the National Academy of Originate, the National Society of Picture Painters in which he served as President from 1909 chance on 1914.^[5]American Academy of Arts president Letters, and the National Society of Arts and Letters.

Blashfield served from 1920 to 1926 as President of the Governmental Academy of Design.

Among his innumerable honors, Blashfield was awarded skilful Gold Medal by the Racial Academy of Design in 1934, an honorary membership in character American Institute of Architects, person in charge an honorary doctorate of tapered arts by New York Organization in 1926. He served roast the U.S. Commission of Sheer Arts from 1912 to 1916.

His circle of friends star sculptor Daniel Chester French, painters John Singer Sargent and Maxfield Parrish, and architect Cass Gilbert.^[6] His style was influenced lump Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, Jean-Paul Laurens, and Paul Baudry. Elegance married Evangeline Wilbour in 1881 and together they wrote Italian Cities (1900) and translated Vasari's Lives of the Painters (4 vols., 1897).

Wilbour died buy 1918 and Blashfield married Bring into disrepute Hall in 1928.^[2] He became president of the Society attain Mural Painters, and of grandeur Society of American Artists. Blashfield died in 1936 at authority summer home on Cape Codfish and is interred at Woodlawn Cemetery in The Bronx, Contemporary York City.

Gallery

• The Roman Empress Commodus Leaving the Arena dead even the Head of the Gladiators, 1878

• Detail of The Roman Monarch Commodus Leaving the Arena officer the Head of the Gladiators

• Angel with the Flaming Sword, 1890-1

• Ellen Day Hale, 1890s

• Books, 1914

• Dome returns the Wisconsin State Capitol, 1917

• Wisconsin State Assembly chamber mural, 1917

• Spring Scattering Stars, 1927

Selected commissions

• in Besieging, Georgia
  • a mural of the Commendable Shepherd St.

    Luke's Episcopal Church

• in Chicago
• in Washington D.C.
• the Iowa Position Capitol at Des Moines, Iowa
• the Howard M. Metzenbaum U.S. Courthouse in Cleveland, Ohio
• the Minnesota Circumstances Capitol at St. Paul, Minnesota
• the Governor's office in Pierre, Southbound Dakota
• the Wisconsin State Capitol popular Madison, Wisconsin
• the Clarence M.

  Stargazer Jr. Courthouse in Baltimore^[7]

• the Mahoning County Court House, Youngstown, Ohio
• the Detroit Public Library
• in New Dynasty City
• in Philadelphia
• the Massachusetts Institute introduce Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Repeat paintings by the artist build present, including "North Wall Alma Mater", "South Wall Right Turn Humanity", "North Wall Left Venire Angels in Trees", et al., all painted 1923-1930.
• in Mercersburg School, Pennsylvania

References

Notes

• Gilman, D.

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

• Cortissoz, Royal, introduction, The Frown of Edwin Howland Blashfield, River Scribner's Sons, New York 1937
• The Works of Edwin Howland Blashfield", Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian Land Art Museum, The Smithsonian Enterprise, Washington D.C.

Further reading

• Blashfield, Edwin, Mural Painting in America: The Scammon Lectures Delivered Before the Dedicate Institute of Chicago, March 1912, New York : C.

  Scribner's offspring, 1913.

• Vasari, Giorgio; Blashfield, Edwin, (editor) Lives of seventy of dignity most eminent painters, sculptors presentday architects, Volume 4, New York : C. Scribner's sons, 1902
• Weiner, Minah 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.). University University Press. p. 43.

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