Walter E. Baum 1940s Sellersville PA Bucks CO. winter landscape oil painting

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Beautiful c. 1940's winter landscape by American artist, Walter Emerson Baum (1884-1956). Oil on artist's board measures 12 x 16 inches; 22 x 26 inches in hand-carved solid wood frame. Depicted here is a pure landscape unencumbered by figures or buildings. The undulating lines of the running water echoes those of the tree trunks and limbs. Very good condition with minor loss in corner as documented in close-up photo. Signed wet into wet, lower left. Artists own bio label glued to reverse. Location of scene is in Sellersville, PA. Born of Pennsylvania Dutch extraction on December 14, 1884, Walter Baum painted among the villages and cities of these people. A pupil of W. T. Trego and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, he was a member of many organizations, including the Philadelphia Art Alliance, the Philadelphia Sketch Club, the Germantown Art League, the Fellowship of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Philadelphia Watercolor Club, Associate of the National Academy of Design in New York, the Salmagundi Club, the Woodmere Art League, and many others. Baum was the art editor of the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin , editor of the Sellersville Herald , a contributing artist of the Curtis Publishing Company, an illustrator for Story Classics , director of the Allentown Museum and head of Kline-Baum Art School in Allentown, read more