Denman Fink
{{Short description|American painter}}
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Denman Fink (1880–1956) was an American artist and magazine illustrator.{{cite web|title=Welcome to Haworth, New Jersey|url=http://www.haworthnj.org/index.asp?Type=B_BASIC&SEC=%7B234B8511-9395-4018-BB82-21EA8D2FCFFC%7D&DE=%7BF5EAB57A-B291-480E-B75A-597B6263974D%7D|website=haworthnj.org/index|publisher=Official Website of Haworth, New Jersey|accessdate=3 April 2015}}
Works
He worked with Phineas P. Paist and Walter De Garmo on the Douglas Entrance (1924) in Coral Gables, Florida, a property listed on the National Register of Historic Places.{{cite book|last1=Behar|first1=Roberto M.|last2=Culot|first2=Maurice C.|title=Coral Gables : an American garden city|date=1997|publisher=Norma Editions|location=Paris, France|isbn=2909283348|page=99}} He also designed the Venetian Pool (1925) in Coral Gables,Behar and Culot, 1997. p. 181 which is also listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The designs were strictly Denman's. The only thing Phineas Paist and Walter De Garmo added was their architect's seal because Denman was not a licensed architect. Denman designed all of the original entrances to Coral Gables and designed the original water tower in the shape of a lighthouse. Fink was artistic advisor for the City of Coral Gables. He also designed the Coral Gables City Hall.
New Jersey
Fink was a long-time resident of Haworth, New Jersey.Parks, Arva Moore. [https://books.google.com/books?id=LSSLfcREVV4C&pg=PA10 George Merrick's Coral Gables: Where Your 'castles in Spain' are Made Real], p. 10, Past Perfect Florida History, 2006. {{ISBN|9780974158969}}. Accessed December 4, 2014. While attending law school, he lived in Haworth with his uncle Denman Fink, a nationally known book and magazine illustrator who was only six years his senior.
Murals
File:Close up of painting "Law Guides Florida Progress" at David W. Dyer Federal Building and Courthouse, Miami, Florida LCCN2010719964.tif commissioned by the Section of Painting and Sculpture]]
Fink was commissioned to create United States post office murals by the Treasury Department Section of Painting and Sculpture. At the U.S. Post Office and Courthouse in Miami, he completed a mural titled Law Guides Florida Progress (1941). It is above the judge's bench and is flanked by two pairs of Ionic marble pilasters. The mural depicts the positive impact of justice guiding Florida's economic development. Fink included a likeness of himself as a draftsman and a likeness of architect Phineas E. Paist (with whom he worked in Coral Gables, Florida) as a chemist.[http://www.gsa.gov/Portal/gsa/ep/buildingView.do?pageTypeId=17109&channelPage=/ep/channel/gsaOverview.jsp&channelId=-25241&bid=479 David W. Dyer Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090817081157/http://www.gsa.gov/Portal/gsa/ep/buildingView.do?pageTypeId=17109&channelPage=%2Fep%2Fchannel%2FgsaOverview.jsp&channelId=-25241&bid=479 |date=2009-08-17 }}, General Services Administration]. At the Lake Wales, Florida post office, he painted a mural titled Harvest Time-Lake Wales in 1942.[http://wpamurals.org/florida.htm Florida] WPA Murals
References
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External links
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Category:People from Coral Gables, Florida
Category:People from Haworth, New Jersey
Category:20th-century American painters
Category:American male painters