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Robert Frederick Blum - Yeddo, Japan

Yeddo, Japan

Robert Frederick Blum (American, 1857-1903)
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The Artist died in 1903 so this work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries where the copyright term is the Artist's life plus 70 years or fewer. It is in the public domain in the United States because it was published or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office before Jan 1, 1926
Robert Frederick Blum

Robert Frederick Blum was an American artist. He was one of the youngest members of the National Academy of Design, was President of the Painters in Pastel, a member of the Society of American Artists, and the American Watercolor Society.

Blum was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. He was employed for a time in a lithographic shop, and 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 water-colours. 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. He visited Japan in 1890 and spent three years there; he had been interested in that country and its art for many years.

His first published sketches of Japanese jugglers appeared in the St. Nicholas Magazine. His most important work is a large frieze in the Mendelssohn Music Hall, New York, Music and the Dance (1895). His pen-and-ink work for the Century Magazine attracted wide attention, as did his illustrations for Sir Edwin Arnold's Japonica.

A Daughter of Japan, drawn by Blum and William Jacob Baer, was the cover of Scribner's Magazine for May 1893, and was one of the earliest pieces of color printing for an American magazine. His Artist's Letters from Japan also appeared in an 1893 edition of Scribner's. He was an admirer of Mariano Fortuny, whose methods somewhat influenced his work.

Blum's Venetian pictures, such as A Bright Day at Venice (1882), had lively charm and beauty. His oil painting The Venetian Beadstringers (1889) was a popular work, which, when shown at the National Academy of Design, resulted in him being elected an Associate. In 1893 he exhibited The Ameya at the Academy and was elected a full member based on that canvas.

Blum's chief patron, Alfred Corning Clark, heir to the Singer Sewing Machine fortune, commissioned twin canvasses, 50 feet long and 12 feet high, for the proscenium of Mendelssohn Hall in downtown New York, which he had constructed to house the famous Mendelssohn Glee Club. The first of these, finished in 1895, was entitled Music and the Dance (originally Moods of Music) and is considered Blum’s most important work. The other, The Feast of Bacchus, was modeled on a painting of the same title that Blum had sent to Clark as a gift in 1888, but was not completed until after Clark's death in 1896. These grand works went missing when the Hall was demolished in 1912, but were later found in the vaults of the Brooklyn Museum, which graciously put them on temporary display for the 100th anniversary of the Glee Club in 1966.

Robert Frederick Blum died of pneumonia at his home at 90 Grove Street, New York City on 8 June 1903.

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Girl Reading

Girl Reading (1883)

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Self-Portrait

Self-Portrait

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The Toilet

The Toilet (ca. 1893)

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View from the Artist’s Window, Grove Street

View from the Artist’s Window, Grove Street (ca. 1900)

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The Etcher

The Etcher (1882)

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Venetian Canal and Boats, No. 8

Venetian Canal and Boats, No. 8 (1800s)

Robert Frederick Blum (American, 1857-1903)
Souvenir of Coney Island

Souvenir of Coney Island (1880)

Robert Frederick Blum (American, 1857-1903)
Fishing Boats At Anchor

Fishing Boats At Anchor (1884)

Robert Frederick Blum (American, 1857-1903)
Lagoon with Steamers and Gondolas

Lagoon with Steamers and Gondolas (1885)

Robert Frederick Blum (American, 1857-1903)
Venetian Canal and Bridges

Venetian Canal and Bridges (1886)

Robert Frederick Blum (American, 1857-1903)
Somber Venice

Somber Venice (C. 1886–87)

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Profile Head of a Japanese Girl

Profile Head of a Japanese Girl (1879)

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Japonica illustration, with falconer and geisha

Japonica illustration, with falconer and geisha

Robert Frederick Blum (American, 1857-1903)
A Difficult Place

A Difficult Place (1877)

Robert Frederick Blum (American, 1857-1903)
A Street In Ikao, Japan

A Street In Ikao, Japan (1890)

Robert Frederick Blum (American, 1857-1903)
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