Edwin H. Blashfield papers
name: label: Creator
content: Blashfield, Edwin Howland, 1848-1936
topic: label: Topic
content: Muralists
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Donated 1973 and 1980 by the Williams College Museum of Art.
creator: label: Creator
content: Blashfield, Edwin Howland, 1848-1936
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Mural painter. Having studied at P.A.F.A. and in Paris, Blashfield worked on: the Court House, Baltimore; Cleveland Federal Building; Citizens Bank, Cleveland; Hudson County Court House, Jersey City; Capitol, Masdison, Wis.; Essex County Court House, Newark; Appellate Court, N.Y..; C.C.N.Y.; Church of the Saviour, Phila.; Capitol, Pierre, S. Dak.; Bank of Pittsburgh; Capitol, St. Paul, Minn.; Library of Congress; Luzerne County Court House, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.; Mahoning County Court House, Youngstown, Ohio; St. Matthew's Church, Wash., D.C.; First Presbyterian Church, Chattanooga, Tenn.; Public Lib., Detroit, M.I.T.; and the Episcopal Church, Chappaqua, N.Y.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1.2 Linear Feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1850-1980
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.blasedwi
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Drawings
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reels 1117 and 2384 available at AAA offices and through interlibrary loan.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Drawings
otherfindaid: label: Other Finding Aids
content: Microfilm reel 2384 includes an inventory prepared by the Williams College Museum of Art in Williamstown, Massachusetts, listing items in this part of the collection and briefly describing the photographs.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Awards, medals, photographs, drawings, printed material and miscellany.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Included are a Gold Medal Certificate awarded to Blashfield in 1904; two medals; drawings, some of medieval armour, in pen and ink, oil and pencil. The photos, many extensively annotated, are of Blashfield including two of him painting murals at the Library of Congress and of Blashfield and others, of armour, and of his paintings and murals in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, South Dakota, state capitols, Library of Congress, libraries in Detroit, Kansas City, the New York City College (now C.C.N.Y.), M.I.T., Grove Academy of Athens (Georgia), Baltimore and Cleveland court houses, and private homes and businesses. and a bound volume with reproductions of engravings by Blashfield and others. Also found are a poster, money, and anti-German stamp designs.