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...often asked in vain, for an architect, though eminent, does not come often enough before the public to be remembered. Cass Gilbert designed the Woolworth Building. Last week he came once more before the public by being elected President of the National Academy of Design to succeed Edwin Howland Blashfield, aged painter of murals, who refused reelection...
Present members of the Academy: John S. Sargent, Daniel C. French, James F. Rhodes, William M. Sloane, Robert U. Johnson, George W. Cable, Henry van Dyke, William C. Brownell, Arthur T. Hadley, Edwin H. Blashfield, Thomas Hastings, Brander Matthews, George E. Woodberry, George W. Chadwick, Lockwood De Forest, William R. Mead, Bliss Perry, A. Lawrence Lowell, Nicholas M. Butler, Paul W. Bartlett, Owen Wister, Herbert Adams, Augustus Thomas, Timothy Cole, Cass Gilbert, Robert Grant, Frederick MacMonnies, William GilIett, Paul E. More, Gari Melchers, Elihu Vedder, Brand Whitlock, Hamlin Garland, Paul Shorey, Charles A. Platt, Archer M. Huntington, Childe Hassam, David...
...Richards, both students of the National Academy of Design (Manhattan) and M. J. Mueller, of the Yale University School of Fine Arts. These three were given four weeks to submit a mural on the subject Spring. Although his painting was not completed, the jury (composed of E. H. Blashfield, F. C. Jones, Douglas Volk, Eugene Savage and Russell Cowles) voted for Finley because of the soundness of his composition. He will sail shortly for Rome. "Magic Needle...
...next evening, the painters and sculptors at the Grand Central Galleries gave a reception to the authors and their guests?and here were Blashfield and Violet Oakley, Grace George and Julia Arthur, and again all the literary folk. President Coolidge. telegraphed cordially?and it was all very significant and, like most significant things, a trifle dull. Significant, too, the absence of the "smart" New York so-called literary crowd. They, apparently, are not willing to be bored. Parlor tricks are more important to them than the honest and frankly sentimental message from John Galsworthy. I mark this as a sign...
...National Institute, along with Louis Betts, painter, and Robert Aitken, sculptor. Arnold Brunner, the medallist, was made Treasurer of the Institute. The Institute may have 50 members. Each year it awards a gold medal for achievement in some fine art. This year the medal went to Edwin H. Blashfield, President of the National Academy of Design...