BLASEWITZ

(51° 8’ N., 13° 49’ B.), town, Saxony, Germany. Pop. 8.000 (1848), educated at Boston Latin School. | Studied art in Paris under Leon Bonnat | in 1867. Exhibited at Paris Salon year-| ly, 1874-79; 1881, 1891 and 1892. Also | at Royal Academy, London. Returned | the to the United States in 1881. Among his | many paintings these may be. cited: | Christmas Bells and Angel with the|ore Flaming Sword. Has decorated many | public and private buildings and homes. | These include Manufacturers Building, |800 Chicago Exposition, Collins P. Hunting-| ton drawing room; central dome, Library | of Congre , Washington, D.C.; Law-| yer’s Club, New York, N.Y.; home of| of W.K. Vanderbilt, New York City;| home of Adolf Lewishohn, New York | City; New Court House, Newark, N.J.;} The Great Hall, College of City of New York, | this N.Y.; State Capitol, Madison, Wis.;| State Capitol, Pierre, §.D.; Church of | St. Matthew, Washington, D.C. came National Artist in 1888. President | also Federation of Fine Arts of New York; ex-president Society of American Artists. Has lectured upon art subjects at Harvard, Yale and Columbia. Author (with are Mrs. Blash field) Italian Cities, 1900; co-editor, Vasari’s Lives of the Painters. of Sebaste, Armenia; feast, Feb. 3; embiem, a comb; protects from affections of the throat. by