Collection Highlights
Astor House
Date:
ca.1853-1859
Object Number:
PR.020.65.1
Medium:
Wood Engraving
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Edwin Howland Blashfield (1848-1936)
Object Number:
1933.11
Date:
1932-33
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 50 x 40 in. ( 127 x 101.6 cm )
Marks:
signature and date: lower left: "DeWitt M. Lockman, N.A. / 1932-33"
Description:
Blashfield, a mural and genre painter and President of the NAD from 1920-1926, is depicted as a balding, mustached man in a dar double breasted suit, high-collared shirt and blue-lavendar tie with a rosetee in his left lapel. He wears wire rimmed glasses and holds a pallette in his left hand and a paint brush in the right. He is seated, turned slightly to his left, in a blue arm chair.
Gallery Label:
Edwin Blashfield, a mural and genre painter, was elected to the National Academy of Design in the late 1880s, and later served as president (1920-1926). His portrait is one of twelve portraits of eminent Americans presented by the artist to the New-York Historical Society between 1930 and 1933.
Credit Line:
Painted from life for the Society
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
