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artist

Walter Emerson Baum, American artist. Awarded: bronze medal American Artists Exhibition, Philadelphia Fellowship prize Pennsylvania Academy, 1939; Member Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia Sketch; member).; Member Sellersville School Board, Sellersville-Perkasie Joint School Board.

Background

Baum, Walter Emerson was born on December 14, 1884 in Sellersville, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Harvey W. and Mary Ellen Baum.

Education

Editor Pennsylvania Academy Fine Arts (student of William Trego). Doctor Humane Letters (honorary) Lehigh University, 1946.

Career

Robert Emerson, Ruth Lynnette (Mistress Robert G. Young), Edgar South. (Doctor of Medicine). Painter of landscapes since 1910. Editor Sellersville Herald, 1920-1942.

Art director Philadelphia Evening Bulletin.

Director Allentown (Pennsylvania) Art Museum. Director Kline-Baum Art School Exhibited at Pennsylvania Academy, Philadelphia Art Club, Corcorar Art Gallery (Washington), National Academy Design (New York), Chicago The Art Institute of Chicago, also in galleries, et cetera, Saint Louis, Buffalo, Fort Worth, Baltimore, San Francisco, Cleveland, et cetera

Represented in permanent collections of Irene Rich Art Association, Norfolk, Virginia. State College, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Water Color Club.

Hazelton High School.

Woodrow Wilson Junior High School (Philadelphia). Allentown Art Museum, Print Club at Philadelphia Museum of Art, University of Pennsylvania, Toledo Art Museum, Pennsylvania Academy, Reading (Pennsylvania) Museum, Asheville and Hickory (North Carolina) Museum.

Achievements

  • Walter Emerson Baum has been listed as a notable artist by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Fellowship prize Pennsylvania Academy, 1939. Member Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia Sketch. Member).; Member Sellersville School Board, Sellersville-Perkasie Joint School Board.

Connections

Married Flora Billger Barndt, November 16, 1904. Children: Marian Eleanor (Mistress J. Lawrence Grim).

Father:
Harvey West.

Mother:
Mary Ellen Baum

Spouse:
Flora Billger Barndt

child:
Marian Eleanor Baum (Mistress J. Lawrence Grim)