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BLUM, ROBERT FREDERICK (1857–1903)

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 92 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BLUM, See also:ROBERT See also:FREDERICK (1857–1903) , See also:American artist, was See also:born in See also:Cincinnati, See also:Ohio, on the 9th of See also:July 1857. He was employed for a See also:time in a lithographic See also:shop, and studied at the McMicken See also:Art School of See also:Design in Cincinnati, and at the See also:Pennsylvania See also:Academy of See also:Fine Arts in See also:Philadelphia, but he was practically self-taught, and See also:early showed See also:great and See also:original See also:talent. He settled in New See also:York in 1879, and his first published sketches—of See also:Japanese jugglers—appeared in St See also:Nicholas. His most important See also:work is a large See also:frieze in the Mendelssohn See also:Music See also:Hall, New York, " Music and the See also:Dance" (1895). His See also:pen-andink work for the See also:Century See also:magazine attracted wide See also:attention, as did his illustrations for See also:Sir See also:Edwin See also:Arnold's Japonica. In the See also:country and art of See also:Japan he had been interested for many years. " A Daughter of Japan," See also:drawn by Blum and W. J. See also:Baer, was the See also:cover of Scribner's Magazine for May 1893, and was one of the earliest pieces of See also:colour-See also:printing for an American magazine. In Scribner's for 1893 appeared also his " Artist's Letters from Japan." He was an admirer of See also:Fortuny, whose methods some-what influenced his work. Blum's Venetian pictures, such as " A See also:Bright See also:Day at See also:Venice " (1882), had lively See also:charm and beauty. He died on the 8th of See also:June 1903 in New York See also:City.

He was a member of the See also:

National Academy of Design, being elected after his See also:exhibition in 1892 of " The Ameya "; and was See also:president of the Painters in See also:Pastel. Although an excellent draughtsman and etcher, it was as a colourist that he chiefly excelled.

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