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Robert Frederick Blum

187 works

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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