Robert Blum

Ameya (candy seller) by Blum. Metropolitan Museum of Art

• Born: 1857
• Died: 1903

Robert Blum was a painter who spent time in Japan for about eighteen months beginning in 1890. He traveled there in order to create illustrations for a series of articles for Scribner's Magazine. His three-part piece ultimately appeared in the magazine in 1893.

References

• Gallery labels, Metropolitan Museum of Art.[1]