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Birth
1848 (New York City)
Death
1936 (South Dennis, Massachusetts)
Lived/Active
New York/Massachusetts
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mural, genre, figure and marine painting
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New York Armory Show of 1913
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| A native New Yorker, Edwin Howland Blashfield was a mural and genre easel painter in conservative style, who was especially noted in his mural work for coordinating with architects so that his work fit the overall vision for its setting. Trained in the academic tradition in Europe and America, he rose to national prominence at age forty-five during the 1893 Chicago World's Fair Exposition for his mural, "The Art of Metal Working". It was a series of utilitarian-theme paintings that were installe (showing 500 of 5035 characters). |
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