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Artists›Edwin Howland Blashfield

Edwin Howland Blashfield

1848

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Smithsonianhttps://www.si.edu/object/chndm_1969-112-1-d
Tier 1 · Institutional90%

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Edwin Howland Blashfield was an American painter and muralist, most known for painting the murals on the dome of the Library of Congress Main Reading Room in Washington, DC.

Source: Smithsonian Institution · Trust score: 90% · Updated 1mo ago

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Artworks (4)

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Portia, a Figure of the Law, Mural Study for Library Decoration in Residence of George W. Childs Drexel

1898 · Charcoal with black chalk, heightened with white chalk, on gray wove paper, laid down on wood-pulp board

96.5 × 65.5 cm (38 × 25 13/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

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Saint Francis of Assissi, Symbolizing Religion, Mural Study for Library Decoration in Residence of George W. Childs Drexel

1898 · Graphite, with traces of white chalk, on gray wove paper, laid down on wood-pulp board

96 × 66 cm (37 13/16 × 26 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Terpsichore (recto), and Dancing Female Figure (verso), Mural Studies for Drawing Room Ceiling, Residence of Collis P. Huntington, now Yale University Art Gallery

1892 · Charcoal with stumping and erasing, heightened with white chalk (recto), and charcoal with touches of white chalk (verso), on folded cream wove paper with blue fibers, tipped on gray wood-pulp laminate board

49.1 × 45.9 cm (19 3/8 × 18 1/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

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Design for the Washington Centennial Celebration, Souvenir

1889 · Oil on canvas board

20 x 16 in. (50.8 x 40.6 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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The Met
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