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See also:EDWIN HOWLAND See also:BLASHFIELD (1848– ) , See also:American artist, was See also:born on the 15th of See also:December 1848 in New See also:York See also:City . He was a See also:pupil of See also:Bonnat in See also:Paris, and became (1888) a member of the See also:National See also:Academy of See also:Design in New York . For some years a genre painter, he later turned to decorative See also:work, marked by rare delicacy and beauty of colouring . He painted mural decorations for a See also:dome in the manufacturers' See also:building at the See also:Chicago Exposition of 1893; for the dome of the Congressional library, See also:Washington; for the capitol at St See also:Paul, See also:Minnesota; for the See also:Baltimore See also:court-See also:house; in New York City for the Appellate court house, the See also:grand See also:ball-See also:room of the Waldorf-See also:Astoria hotel, the Lawyers' See also:club, and the residences of W . K . See also:Vanderbilt and Collis P . See also:Huntington; and in See also:Philadelphia for the See also:residence of See also:George W . See also:Drexel . With his wife he wrote See also:Italian Cities (1900) and edited See also:Vasari's Lives of the Painters (1896), and was well known as a lecturer and writer on See also:art . He became See also:president of the Society of Mural Painters, and of the Society of American Artists . |
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