The Classical Design Foundation will sponsor an illustrated lecture and book-signing by Mina Rieur Weiner, editor of Edwin Howland Blashfield : Master American Muralist. Written with contributors Ann Samuel, Gillian Britta Randell and Jeff Greene, this lavishly illustrated monograph is the most recent title in the “Classical America Series in Art and Architecture” and introduces a whole new generation to the life and work of America’s greatest mural painter.
Blashfield, (1848 – 1936) was both artist and scholar working during America’s Gilded Age, and is perhaps best known for his decorations in the Library of Congress along with other federal buildings, state capitols, churches and colleges. He was author of “Mural Painting in America” and in 1928 wrote the following:
“If America is truly to profit by the unparalleled opportunity which social, industrial and geographical conditions are to offer the artist in the future we must demand the ultimate — the ultimate in talent and experience — from the artist. He must know the art of bygone times thoroughly in order that he may utilize its happenings and processes in meeting the needs of the present. He must sympathize with the branches of art which are sisters of his own; and in sum, he must be a veritable Janus, looking backward for all that the past may teach him, yet not forgetting that he is an American among Americans looking forward to the threshold of no one knows how potential a future.”
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