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Robert Frederick Blum

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Pencil sketch of a violinist seen from behind, bow raised, with a smaller partial figure drawing below.

Musician playing the violin

1880

Donkey

1880

Red chalk sketch of a standing woman holding a child on her hip, drawn on thin translucent paper.

Study for a woman holding a child, “Vintage Festival,” Mendelssohn Glee Club, New York, NY

1890

Pencil studies of monkeys on cream paper, including a head study of a marmoset and a young monkey, with handwritten labels.

Money and Marmoset

1870

Pencil sketch of three sailors in caps on a stone bridge and a boat with mast and rigging.

Sailors

1880

Pencil sketch of a partial figure with curved lines on an aged paper sheet, with a faint stamp at lower left.

Figure

1900

Loose watercolor study of a pale temple interior with a tripod stand, bronze urn, wreath, and green garlands.

Study for the entrance of a temple, “Vintage Festival”, Mendelssohn Glee Club, New York, NY

1890

Pencil sketch of a young boy standing with a long pole across his shoulders, on aged paper with a museum stamp.

Boy

1880

Red chalk sketch of a seated woman holding a standing nude child viewed from behind, on pale paper.

Study for a seated woman holding a child, “Vintage Festival,” Mendelssohn Glee Club, New York, NY

1890

Horizontal watercolor study of draped figures in a procession near classical columns, with a kneeling woman in the foreground

Study for a Procession, “Vintage Festival,” Mendelssohn Glee Club, New York, NY

1890

Pen and pencil sketches on tan paper showing a floor plan with rooms and window details by Robert Frederick Blum.

Floor plans

1900

Ducks

1870

Red chalk sketch of a muscular male figure with arms raised above a reclining figure on cream paper.

Study for a the maenad, “Vintage Festival,” Mendelssohn Glee Club, New York, NY

1890

Watercolor of misty Venetian canal with gondolas and standing gondoliers, pale blue sky and faint distant boats.

Gondolas, Grand Canal, Venice

n.d.

Grey watercolor of two men working inside a wooden room, one pounding paddy with a pestle and one sweeping grain near a barre

Pestling the Paddy

n.d.

Pastel drawing of an artist's studio with a seated nude woman, blue bowl, gilded mirror, and cane chair.

Studio of Robert F. Blum

1883

Etching of a woman's head with long, flowing hair and curls, shaded with fine hatched lines on a pale background.

Head of a Woman with Long Hair

n.d.

Etching of gondolas moored before an arched Venetian palace entrance, with reflections rippling on the canal water.

Gondolas and Venetian Palace

c. 1880

Etching of a Venetian lagoon with gondolas, rowers, and tall-masted ships reflected in rippling water.

Lagune with Steamers and Gondolas, Venice

1885

Etching of a young woman's head and shoulders with curly hair falling over one shoulder, set against a pale background.

Head of a Girl

n.d.

Etching of two women working in a cluttered Venetian interior, one reaching up beside a shelf of bottles, the other seated at

Bead Stringers, Venice

1886

Etching of women and girls seated at a table in a domestic interior, with a figure reading by a window at right.

Untitled (Girls Saying Grace)

1885

Head of a Girl, Profile

n.d.

Etching of a woman holding laundry beside a tub in a dim room, with light from a window with a curtain.

Wash Day

n.d.

Etching of tall slender trees and bushes on a grassy rise, with the lower page left mostly blank.

Unfinished Landscape

n.d.

Etching of a seated, partly nude man with clasped hands against a dark, cross-hatched background.

Half Nude Figure of a Man

n.d.

Etching of a Venetian canal with an arched stone bridge, a gondola on the water, figures on the quay, and old brick buildings

Venetian Canal and Bridges

1886

Etched portrait of a woman with curly hair in a loose sketch style, with a small boat at the right edge.

Jennie Gerson

c. 1880

Etching of a crowded town square with a theater sign, performers on a platform, market stalls, and people in the foreground.

An Illustration

1883

Small Head

n.d.

Girl Reading

1883

Etching of children on a sandy beach at Coney Island, with a sea horizon and loose sweeping sky lines.

Souvenir of Coney Island

1880

Pencil and chalk study of a bare leg with bent knee and foot on cream paper, by Robert Frederick Blum, 1890.

Study for the left maenad, “Vintage Festival,” Mendelssohn Glee Club, New York, NY

1890

Loose pencil sketch of two men on horseback, one in a wide-brimmed hat, with faint trees and horizon behind them.

Men on horseback

1880

Pencil sketch of a man in a bowler hat and long coat seen from behind, with a small head study above.

Figures in a crowd

1880

Pencil sketch of a Coney Island beach scene with small figures, flagpoles, tents, and bathers on tan paper.

Coney Island, Brooklyn, NY

1880

Pencil sketch of four allegorical female figures on a folding screen design, with color notes labeling each panel.

Allegorical figures

1880

Pencil sketch of a circular Navajo war shield with feathers and handwritten color notes labeling light blue, red, and dark ar

War Shield of Navajo

1880

Pencil sketch of a woman and child in capes and bonnets with handwritten clothing notes on cream paper.

Woman and child

1870

Two chalk studies of draped standing women on toned paper, one in red-brown and one in grey with white highlights.

Study for standing woman, “Vintage Festival,” Mendelssohn Glee Club, New York, NY

1890

Loose red chalk sketch of a horse over a pencil grid on tan paper.

Study for left hand, “Vintage Festival,” Mendelssohn Glee Club, New York, NY

1890

Pencil sketch of a table with fluted legs in an interior, with windows and cabinetry sketched at left and right.

Table

1870

Loose pencil sketch of lilac branches with buds and flower sprays, labeled 'lilac', on cream paper.

Lilac

1870

Red chalk study of a woman in a flowing dress raising a tambourine overhead, with loose drapery lines.

Study for Girl with Tambourine, “Vintage Festival”, Mendelssohn Glee Club, New York

1890

Pencil sketch of a frieze of small classical figures with handwritten notes on four seasons panels.

Allegory of the Four Seasons

1900

Pencil sketch of tall grass stalks with dark seed heads and handwritten notes reading last grass stalks, deep madder.

Madder

1870

Soft pencil sketch of a man in a hat and coat standing on a street beside another figure and a dark doorway.

Man

1900

Pencil sketch of a rocky landscape with a dark mass of trees or rock behind two stone blocks on uneven ground.

Rock formation

1870

Loose graphite sketch of two figures, one wearing a hat, on cream paper with a museum stamp.

Boy

1870

Pencil sketch of a seated man in front of a bullfighting poster with a bull's head emblem and the word Toro.

Bullfighter, Spain

1880

Pencil sketch of a startled man with both hands raised to his head, with handwritten label naming Kenyon Cox.

Sketch of Kenyon Cox

1880

Ink and wash sketch of a man with dark hair, dark jacket and bow tie, looking directly at the viewer.

Portrait of Kenyon Cox

1870

Pencil sketch of a man's head and shoulders, turned to the side, drawn in loose hatched strokes on tan paper.

Self-Portrait

1880

Pencil sketch of two costumed female figures with suit symbols and handwritten color notes on cream paper.

Playing cards

1880

Café

1880

Pencil sketch of a sailing ship's rigging and sail in the foreground, with a distant Venetian skyline across calm water.

View of Venice, Italy

1900

Pencil sketch of three horse heads on tan paper, one larger above two smaller studies, with a museum stamp below.

Horse

1900

Girl

1900

Red chalk study of a standing boy with a leafy wreath, holding a small figure near his chest, on pale paper.

Study for standing boy with kid, “Vintage Festival,” Mendelssohn Glee Club, New York, NY

1890

Pencil sketch of women in robes seated in an interior with vertical screens and a low table, drawn in soft graphite.

Japanese Women

1890

Pencil sketch of a seated child with hair in buns leaning on a boat's edge, with faint rigging lines on cream paper.

Boat

1880

Red chalk study of a maenad figure with one arm raised and draped body, on tan paper.

Study for a maenad, “Vintage Festival,” Mendelssohn Glee Club, New York, NY

1890

Pencil sketch of a man in a light headwrap, head and shoulders turned toward the viewer, on tan paper.

Japanese Man

1890

Pencil sketches of three women's heads in headdresses, with handwritten notes about double lining and velvet and satin.

Headdress

1880