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Willard Trask (1900-1980)
"Willard Ropes Trask, a translator whose erudition encompassed prehistoric religions, the poetry of the medieval minnesingers, Joan of Arc, Provencal verses and Polynesian folk songs, the memoirs of Casanova, Stalinist police terror and the mysteries of Georges Simenon, died Sunday at New York University Hospital. He was 80 years old and resided in Manhattan."
Willard Trask worked in the Mansfield studio.
The Helen Coolidge Mansfield Studio was donated by graduates of the Mansfield War Service Classes for Reconstruction Aides. Mrs. Mansfield helped found the New York MacDowell Club, which was among the biggest clubs by the same name around the country honoring the legacy of Edward MacDowell and supporting MacDowell. The small…