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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. Helen Mansfield helped found the New York MacDowell Club. The small, shingled frame structure with stone foundation was originally fronted on the west side by a neat white picket fence and gate, a garden, and a stone pathway…