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Walter E. Baum

Biography

Achievements

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Featured Artists
Baum
Blakeslee
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Evans
Gruber

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Leith-Ross
Meltzer
Ney
Nunamaker
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Schucker
Speight

Vanka
Yost

 

Walter Emerson Baum

 

   
    Major Solo Exhibitions
Walter E. Baum, A.N.A., Exhibition in Retrospect, 1923-1953, Playhouse Galleries, New Hope, Pennsylvania, 1953
Retrospective show, Forrest Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1954

Major Group Exhibitions
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1914-1916,1918-1920, 1922, 1924-1926,1928-1954
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1916, 1926, 1935, 1937, 1939, 1941, 1943, 1947, 1951
National Academy of Design, New York, New York, 1926, 1928, 1933, 1936, 1938, 1941- 1950
Audubon Artists, New York, New York, 1953
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland
Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, Michigan
Fort Worth Museum of Art, Fort Worth, Texas
Phillip's Mill Community Association, New Hope, Pennsylvania, annual art exhibitions
Philadelphia Art Club, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
St. Louis Museum, St. Louis, Missisippi
The Pennsylvania School of Landscape Painting: An Original American Impressionism, traveling exhibition, Allentown Museum, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Westmoreland County Museum, Brandywine River Museum, 1984-85 Kemerer Museum, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, 1984
The Pennsylvania Impressionists: Painters of the New Hope School, James A. Michener Arts Center, 1990

Major Collections
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Toledo Art Museum, Toledo, Ohio
National Academy of Design, New York, New York
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
President Franklin D. Roosevelt
Other private and public collections

Nonfiction Publications
Two Hundred Years, Sellersville, Pennsylvania: The Sellersville Herald, 1938.

Teaching and Professional Appointments
Art Instructor, Allentown, Pennsylvania 1926-1956
Founder and Director, Baum School of Art, formerly Kline-Baum School, Allentown, Pennsylvania, 1928
Associate Academian, the National Academy of Design, 1944
Founder and Director, Allentown Art Museum, founded in 1939

Major Awards
Bronze Medal, American Artist's Exhibition, Philadelphia, 1918
Jennie Sesnan Gold Medal, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1925
Price, Springville, Utah, 1932
Prize, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1939
Prize, American Society of Miniature Painters, New York, New York, 1943
Medal, Philadelphia Watercolor Club, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1944
Prize, American Watercolor Society, 1945
Prize, Buck Hill Art Association, Pennsylvania, 1945
Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Lehigh University, 1946
M. Grumbacher Purchase Prize for Casein, Audubon Artists, 1953
Medal of Honor, National Arts Club, 1953
Gold Medal Award, daVinci Alliance, Philadelphia, 1956, posthumously

Affiliations and Memberships
American Artists Professional League
American Watercolor Society
Allentown-Bethlehem Art Alliance
Buck Hill Arts Association
Germantown Art League
Lehigh Art Alliance
Associate Member, National Academy of Design Fellowship of the Pennsylvania
Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1939
Philadelphia Art Alliance
Philadelphia Sketch Club
Philadelphia Watercolor Club

   
                   
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