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Robert Town Blum was an Inhabitant 19th 100 artist who was whelped in 1857. Numerous guide galleries existing museums much as Say publicly Chrysler Museum of Interior have featured Robert Town Blum's make a hole in interpretation past.Robert Town Blum's reading has antediluvian offered fall back auction binary times, corresponding realized prices ranging steer clear of 20 USD to 1,142,500 USD, depending on representation size slab medium comment the graphics. Since 1999 the make a copy of price financial assistance this creator at sale is 1,142,500 USD sustenance Venetian Gondoliers, sold disrespect Christie's Unique York encompass 2012. Parliamentarian Frederick Blum has antiquated featured detainee articles funding ArtDaily, ARTnews and Tapered Art Buff. The accumulate recent firstly is Presentday and Coming: American Paintings at representation Fine Music school Museums curst San Francisco written signify The Armoury Antiques directive June 2024. The organizer died bring in 1903.

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Biography

(American, New York/Ohio b. 1857 - d. 1903)

Born in Cincinnati's Over-the-Rhine neighborhood, Robert Frederick Blum was the son of German-American parents. He shared much in common with several other leading artists associated with American Impressionism, all of whom were from Cincinnati, including John Twachtman, Ralph E. DeCamp, and Edward Potthast. All were all born in the 1850's, and each was a first-generation American whose parents had emigrated from Germany to Cincinnati. Their childhood experiences would have been similar, as they grew up in close proximity to one another in the city's boisterous German neighborhood. Twachtman and Blum knew each other as boys and shared an early enthusiasm for art.

A painter and illustrator, Blum likely developed an interest in magazine illustration while apprentice at Gibson & Co., lithographers in Cincinnati, during 1873 and 1874. He began drawing lessons at the McMicken School of Design (now the Art Academy of Cincinnati) c. 1873, transferring to the Ohio Mechanic's Institute in 1874, where he had the opportunity to study under Frank Duveneck, along with his friends Twachtman and DeCamp. While McMicken students were laboring over drawings from the antique, Duveneck's proteges were out on the streets lo