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Weisberg,<EM> The Orient expressed: Japan’s influence on Western art, 1854-1918</EM>, (Jackson, MS: Mississippi Museum of Art; Seattle, WA: In association with University of Washington Press, 2011).","citation":"Gabriel P. 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After studying at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Blum had his dream realized when <I>Scribner’s</I> commissioned him in 1890 to illustrate a series of articles about Japan, where he remained for two and a half years. Blum’s full-page illustration, for which this is <BR>a study, accompanies a text describing how children as young as five carried their siblings on their backs while they ran, jumped, flew kites, and fished for frogs. </P></SPAN>","remarks":"Painting on Paper: American Watercolors at Princeton"}],"datebegin":1890,"sortnumber":"1993  163x","published_date":"2026-02-11 09:17:22.357478","objectid":18614,"dimensions":"35.7 x 27.4 cm (14 1/16 x 10 13/16 in.)","on_view":false}