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Edwin Howland Blashfield Art

American, 1848-1936
Born in New York in 1848 he detoured from his plan to enter Harvard and instead left for a ten year sojourn in Paris to study painting. He exhhibited at the Paris Salon from 1874-1892 and also at the Royal Academy in London. He continued his travels through Europe eventually returning and establishing a studio in New York where he became well known for his large scale painting done on commission for the most prominent families. He is noted for the great central dome in the Library of Congress in Washington among dozens of other large public works. He was also known for genre, portraits, ruins and Indians.He developed a distinctive format that put real and Allegorical figures together in pictures with Historical and moral themes. In both easel paintings and his murals Blashfield proceeded from careful black-and-white studies to finished oils on canvas. He often used a frieze-like format for his classically beautiful women depicted with elegant line and rich, inventive color. He understood "thoroughly the decorative qualities in great oil paintings but saw the mural as very different from the easel painting." About the mural, he wrote, "developed into beauty applied to utility, and it culminated as a supreme teacher, through the arts, of patriotism, morals and history. were credited as being integral to the American Renaissance revival of decoration in public buildings. He was a long time member of the Architectural League of New York and the National Society of Mural Painters, and was president of the National Academy of Design from 1920-26, which honored him in 1934 with a special gold medal for commitment to the arts and the academy. He passed away in 1936.
(Biography provided by Lynda Anderson Galleries)
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Red Cross Christmas Roll Call original World War 1 vintage poster
By Edwin Howland Blashfield
Located in Spokane, WA
Original poster: Red Cross Christmas Roll Call. “Where Columbia sets her name let every one of you follow her” Linen-backed in very good condition, ready to frame. Artist: Edwin Howland Blashfield. The Red Cross stands on the left helping hold the banner that reads Where Columbia sets her name let every one of you follow her. December 16th to 23d. World War 1...
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1910s Art Nouveau Edwin Howland Blashfield Art

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Lithograph

Spring Scattering Stars, Nude allegory scattering stars from a crescent moon
By Edwin Howland Blashfield
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Spring Scattering Stars is a 1927 Neoclassical painting by American artist Edwin Blashfield. It depicts a nude female allegory of spring on a w...
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Midsummers Night Dream Large oil painting as a Mural in blues
By Edwin Howland Blashfield
Located in Brookville, NY
This unsigned ( typical of Edwin Blashfield) canvas depicts a scene from Midsummers Night Dream. Blashfields best known for his Murals, genre, figure and marine paintings. To date his record at auction is for a work even larger than this painting, depicting a battle scene in Missouri "Trumpets of Missouri" which sold for 150,000. Edwin Blashfield died in 1936. Of him it was written: "Along with William Morris Hunt...
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1920s American Realist Edwin Howland Blashfield Art

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