Background
Baum, Walter Emerson was born on December 14, 1884 in Sellersville, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Harvey W. and Mary Ellen Baum.
Baum, Walter Emerson was born on December 14, 1884 in Sellersville, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Harvey W. and Mary Ellen Baum.
Editor Pennsylvania Academy Fine Arts (student of William Trego). Doctor Humane Letters (honorary) Lehigh University, 1946.
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.
Fellowship prize Pennsylvania Academy, 1939. Member Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia Sketch. Member).; Member Sellersville School Board, Sellersville-Perkasie Joint School Board.
Married Flora Billger Barndt, November 16, 1904. Children: Marian Eleanor (Mistress J. Lawrence Grim).