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Friday, January 15, 2010
Resting
Flower Market, Tokyo by Robert Frederick Blum, c. 1892, The Manoogian Collection
Blum was born in Cincinnati where he worked for a lithographer before he began to take classes in drawing. He had a strong interest in all things Japanese as did many other artists at the time such as Whistler and Monet. Blum's preferred medium was pastels and he and W.M. Chase founded the Society of Painters in Pastel in New York.