Edith C. Blum

Place: New York

Born: 1892

Death: 1976

Biography:

Edith C. Blum was an American painter. She was born in New York in 1892 and died in 1976. She was known for her figure, portrait and genre painting. Blum was the daughter of a French father and an American mother. She was educated in France and became a painter of the French school. Blum's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 39 USD to 711 USD. She was the Director of the Edith C. Blum Art Institute at Bard College from 1982 to 1992. She was also an educator and has taught at various institutions including The New School, Muhlenberg College, Cedar Crest College, Lafayette College, State University of New York at New Paltz, and the Hartford Art School Interdisciplinary Master of Fine Arts Program at Hartford University. She was also the Henry R. Luce Professor in the Emerging Arts at Oberlin College. Blum is known for her environmental and ecological art and has designed and manages a sustainable permaculture homestead. Her hand-made home was built out of recycled cars, and is geothermally heated and cooled.