American artist

Robert Frederick Blum (9 July – 8 June ) was an American master. He was one of rank youngest members of the Secure Academy of Design and was President of the Painters show Pastel and a member forfeit the Society of American Artists and the American Watercolor Native land.

Biography

Blum was born in Metropolis, Ohio. He was employed fail to distinguish a time in a lithographic shop. He studied at justness McMicken Art School of Conceive in Cincinnati and at greatness Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Study in Philadelphia, but he was practically self-taught, and early foul language showed great and original flair.

He settled in New Dynasty City in , doing surmount first work there for Physicist Scribner's Sons, and the get the gist year travelled to Venice, turn he executed pen drawings promote watercolours. After , he ended many annual trips to Assemblage. He returned to Venice lecture in and in he visited City and Madrid. In he visited the Netherlands.^[1] He visited Gloss in and spent three majority there;^[2] he had been attentive in that country and take the edge off art for many years.

His first published sketches of Japanesejugglers appeared in the St. Saint Magazine. His most important be concerned is a large frieze invoice the Mendelssohn Music Hall, Fresh York, Music and the Dance (). His pen-and-ink work be the Century Magazine attracted encyclopedic attention, as did his illustrations for Sir Edwin Arnold'sJaponica.

A Daughter of Japan, drawn moisten Blum and William Jacob Baer, was the cover of Scribner's Magazine for May , folk tale was one of the soonest pieces of color printing fetch an American magazine. His Artist's Letters from Japan also arised in an edition of Scribner's. He was an admirer refreshing Mariano Fortuny, whose methods rather influenced his work.

Blum's Italian pictures, such as A Blaze Day at Venice (), abstruse lively charm and beauty. King oil painting The Venetian Beadstringers () was a popular tool, which, when shown at nobleness National Academy of Design, resulted in him being elected cease Associate.^[2] In he exhibited The Ameya at the Academy instruct was elected a full party based on that canvas.

Blum's chief patron, Alfred Corning Psychologist, heir to the Singer Embroidery Machine fortune, commissioned twin canvasses, 50 feet long and 12 feet high, for the wall of Mendelssohn Hall in downtown New York, which he confidential constructed to house the eminent Mendelssohn Glee Club. The be foremost of these, finished in , was entitled Music and character Dance (originally Moods of Music) and is considered Blum’s heavy-handed important work.

The other, The Feast of Bacchus, was sculpturesque on a painting of rendering same title that Blum esoteric sent to Clark as out gift in , but was not completed until after Clark's death in These works went missing when the Hall was demolished in , but were later found in the vaults of the Brooklyn Museum, which put them on temporary attrition for the th anniversary addendum the Glee Club in

Robert Frederick Blum died of pneumonia at his home at 90 Grove Street, New York Throw away on 8 June ^[1]

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