Study for a woman, âVintage Festival,â Mendelssohn Glee Club, New York, NY
1895â1898
Classification
figures
Department
Smithsonian Collection
Museum
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Credit
Gift of Henrietta Haller
Accession Number
1904-16-2-b
About this artwork
Research in Progress
Art Historical Context
Robert Frederick Blum (1857–1903), a prominent American artist of the Gilded Age, created this *Study for a Woman, “Vintage Festival Mendelssohn Glee, New York, NY* between 1895 and1898. Blum, known for his elegant figure studies and murals blending European academic traditions with Japanese ukiyo-e influences, prepared this drawing as part of a larger decorative project for the Mendelssohnlee Club—a prestigious men's choral society founded in 1884 in New York City. The "Vintage Festival" likely evokes festive harvest scenes, with this study capturing a female figure central to the club's opul...