BIOGRAPHY

Education and Training
Apprentice to painter William T. Trego, 1904-1909
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1910

Teachers and Influences
Studied under William T. Trego, Thomas Anshutz and Daniel Garber.
Influenced by Robert Henri and the Ash Can School. He was also influenced by Thomas Eakins, French and American impressionists, and Walter Schofield.

Walter Baum, photograph by Bob Stevens, 1953.
Photo courtesy James A. Michener Art Museum library.

Connection to Bucks County
Walter Emerson Baum was one of a few Pennsylvanian impressionists who was born here, living his whole life in Sellersville. He created the Traveling Art Gallery, which was designed to teach students a greater appreciation of Bucks County Artists.

Colleagues and Affiliations
Baum was a frequent exhibitor at Phillip's Mill, although he did not consider himself part of the New Hope School.

Baum founded a Traveling Art Gallery in Bucks County, as he did in Allentown, to expose public school children to the visual arts.

He was a member of the Phillip's Mill Community Association, and the New Hope Art Associates.