Robert frederick blum biography
Robert frederick blum biography
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Robert Frederick Blum
American artist
Robert Frederick Blum (9 July 1857 – 8 June 1903) was an American artist. He was one of the youngest members of the National Academy of Design and was President of the Painters in Pastel and a member of the Society of American Artists and the American Watercolor Society.
Biography
Blum was born in Cincinnati, Ohio.
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He was employed for a time in a lithographic shop. He studied at the McMicken Art School of Design in Cincinnati and at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia, but he was practically self-taught, and early on showed great and original talent.
He settled in New York City in 1879, doing his first work there for Charles Scribner's Sons, and the next year travelled to Venice, where he executed pen drawings and watercolours. After 1880, he made many annual trips to Europe.
He returned to Venice in 1881 and in 1882 he visited Toledo and Madrid. In 1884 he visited the Netherlands.[1] He visited Japan in