Robert Frederick Blum
American, 1857–1903
Somber Venice
c. 1886–87
| Medium | pastel on dark gray paper |
| Dimensions | 8 1/16 x 11 15/16 in. (20.5 x 30.4 cm) Frame: 18 1/2 x 24 1/2 x 1 1/8 in. (47 x 62.2 x 2.9 cm) |
| Object Number | 1955.1567 |
| Acquisition | Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955 |
| Status | Off View |
Image Caption
Robert Frederick Blum, Somber Venice, c. 1886–87, pastel on dark gray paper. Clark Art Institute, 1955.1567
Select Bibliography
Fernandez, Rafael. A Scene of Light and Glory: Approaches to Venice. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1982.
Merrill, Linda, ed. After Whistler: The Artist and His Influence on American Painting. Exhibition catalogue. Atlanta: The High Museum, 2003.
Haverkamp-Begemann, Egbert, Standish D. Lawder, and Charles W. Talbot, Jr. Drawings from the Clark Art Institute: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Robert Sterling Clark Collection of European and American Drawings, Sixteenth Through Nineteenth Centuries, at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown. 2 volumes. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1964.
Brooke, David S., Rafael Fernandez, and Beth Carver Wees. Three Cheers for the Twenty-Fifth. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1980.
