American painter
Edward Trumbull (1884 – 1968) was an American painter known primarily as a muralist.
Illustration by Trumbull for an advertisement from the Standard Sanitary Mfg. Co. of Pittsburgh
Biography
Edward Trumbull was born in Michigan and raised in Stonington , Connecticut . He studied at the Art Students League in New York City .
[ 1] London , England as an assistant to the Welsh artist Frank Brangwyn .[ 2]
He was introduced to the condiment mogul Henry J. Heinz by the painter Sir Alfred East . Heinz then hired him to create the murals in Heinz administration building in Pittsburgh . In 1915 Trumbull executed two murals for the Pennsylvania Building at the Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco designed by architect Henry Hornbostel , “William Penn ’s Treaty with the Indians” and “The Steel Industries of Pittsburgh”.Trumbull resided in Pittsburgh between 1912 and 1920.[ 1]
Trumbull then moved to New York City. In Manhattan Trumbull created the art-deco terra cotta façade bas relief on the Chanin Building , the "Graybar passage mural" in Grand Central Terminal (1927) rendered on one of the seven vaults comprising the passage's ceiling and depicting transportation, and the mural "Transport and Human Endeavor " on the celing of the lobby of the Chrysler Building (1930), the largest ever painting at the time,[ 3] [ 4] [ 5] [ 6]
Personal life and bigamy scandal In 1911, Trumbull was engaged to the painter Katherine Sophie Dreier , when they both lived in London. In August 1911, he married Dreier at her home at 6 Montague Terrace in Brooklyn . Shortly after the marriage ceremony, Dreier found out that he was already married as Trumbull's existing betrothal had not come to a legal conclusion. Trumbull and Dreier's marriage was thus annulled.[ 7] [ 8]
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