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Died. Edwin Howland Blashfield, 87, dean of U. S. muralists, who at one time got $450 per square foot for his work; after a heart attack; on Cape Cod. One-time leader of a school of U. S. painting, he executed murals for the Chicago World's Fair in 1893, the Congressional Library, painted the famed World War poster "Carry...
...Prix de Rome scholarships. Recognizing these facts, Manhattan's Yale Club last week opened its first annual exhibition of professional Yale artists. Graduates responded enthusiastically. Over 70 Yale artists sent 116 pictures, 23 pieces of sculpture. In age exhibitors ranged from 87-year-old Edwin H. Blashfield (1914 Hon.) to recently graduated John Stull (1934). Other famed exhibitors: Muralist Eugene Francis Savage (1924); Etcher Troy Kinney (1896); Sculptor Wheeler Williams (1918); Satirist Reginald Marsh (1920); Portraitists Augustus Vincent Tack (1912), Deane Keller...
...lack courage. The complacency of academic painters and museum directors has long been his special target. In 1928 he published his best known book Ananias, or the False Artist, in which he performed the not too difficult feat of denting the reputations of such painters as Edwin Howland Blashfield, Ignacio Zuloaga, Sir Laurence Alma-Tadema. Emanuel Leutze, the creator of Waslington Crossing the Delaware, and the society portraits of John Singer Sargent (like most critics Walter Pach has respect for the Sargent water colors). He tore into the critics who had praised them, the museums, particularly the Metropoli- tan Museum...
...later years it gave him an actual physical revulsion to shake hands with or touch strangers. As an artist he had a magnificent sense of composition, easily held his own in a generation of great draughtsmen: Sargent, Homer, Pennell, Abbey. Critics rate him among his contemporaries somewhere between Edwin Blashfield and John Singer Sargent. Like theirs, his mural paintings were always in the Grand Manner, highly symbolical...
...casual observer, knowing the taste of Mr. Tiffany, seeing on the board of trustees the names of such venerable gentlemen as Sculptor Daniel Chester French, Gem Expert George Frederick Kunz, Mural Painter Edwin Howland Blashfield, might imagine that the Foundation was a cradle only for the academic. The casual observer would be wrong. Resident Director and mainspring of the Tiffany Foundation is a sharp-eyed, kinetic, gnomelike person named Stanley Lothrop. It is an open secret that although the Foundation has an admissions committee which goes through the formality of inspecting the paintings submitted by candidates, most of the artists...