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American Academy of Arts and Letters

January 1, 2024

Edwin Blashfield

Biography Edwin Howland Blashfield (December 5, 1848 – October 12, 1936) 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. Blashfield was born in Brooklyn in 1848 to William H. Blashfield and Eliza Dodd. He studied painting at… Continue reading

Artists, Painter

America, American, American Academy of Arts and Letters, American Institute of Architects, Muralists, National Academy of Design, National Institute of Arts and Letters, National Society of Mural Painters, Society of American Artists, U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, United States, US
December 22, 2023

Daniel Chester French

Biography Daniel Chester French (April 20, 1850 – October 7, 1931) was an American sculptor of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He is best known for his 1874 sculpture The Minute Man in Concord, Massachusetts, and his 1920 monumental statue of Abraham Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. French was born… Continue reading

Artists, Sculptor

America, American, American Academy in Rome, American Academy of Arts and Letters, Architectural League, French Legion of Honor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Metropolitan Museum of Art, MIT, National Academy of Design, United States

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