BLASHFIELD, Edwin Howland, Amer ican artist: b. New York, 15 Dec. 1848. He was educated at the Boston Latin School, studied in Paris under Leon Bonnat, was also advised by GerOme and Chapu, and began ex hibiting in the Paris Salon in 1874. He re turned to the United States in 1881, and has since distinguished himself by the execution of large decorative works. Among his note worthy productions in this line are one of the domes of the Manufacturers' building in the World's Columbian Exposition, the great cen tral dome of the Library of Congress and the new apartment of the appellate court in New York; besides ceiling and panel work in the residences of C. P. Huntington, W. K. Van derbilt and George W. C. Drexel and in the Astoria ballroom and several clubhouses in New York. Other works are the ceiling and three lunettes in the Prudential Insurance Company's building, Newark, N. J.; court room decorations in Baltimore court-house; large panel in the Iowa State Capitol; decora tion of the entire chancel, Church of the Saviour, Philadelphia; decoration in Great Hall, College of the City of New York; also in the Wisconsin State Capitol, the court-house and Federal building, Cleveland, and decora tion of the four main pendentives in the court-house of Youngstown, Ohio. For the
latter he received the gold medal of honor in painting of the Architectural League of New York in 1911. He has lectured on art at Columbia, Harvard and Yale universities and in June 1912 was appointed member of the National Commission of Fine Arts by Presi dent Taft. He is joint author with Mrs. Blashfield of 'Italian Cities' (1900, new ed., 1913) • and, with Mrs. Blashfield and A. A. Hopkins, co-editor of Vasari's (Lives of the Painters' (4 vols., 1897), and sole author of (Mural Painting in America and the Modern Tendency' (1913).