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Robert Frederick Blum

187 works

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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