Art Museum, St. Louis, Mississippi The Pennsylvania School of Landscape Painting: An Original American Impressionism, traveling exhibition, Allentown Museum, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Westmoreland County Museum, Brandywine River Museum, 1984–85 Kemerer Museum, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, 1984 The Pennsylvania Impressionists: Painters of the New Hope School, James A. Michener Arts Center, 1990 The Lenfest Exhibition of Pennsylvania Impressionism, James A. Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, Pennsylvania, 2001 (Permanent) Objects of Desire: Treasures from Private Collections, James A. Michener Art Museum, New Hope, Pennsylvania, 2005–2006 Colleagues and affiliations American Artists Professional League American Watercolor Society Allentown-Bethlehem Art Alliance Buck Hill Arts Association Germantown Art League Lehigh Art Alliance National Academy of Design, Associate Member 1945 Associate Member, National Academy of Design Fellowship of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1939 Philadelphia Art Alliance Philadelphia Sketch Club Philadelphia Watercolor Club Teaching and professional appointments Art Instructor, Allentown, Pennsylvania, 1926-1956 Founder and Director, Baum School of Art (formerly Kline-Baum School), Allentown, Pennsylvania, 1928 Associate Academian, National Academy of Design, 1944 Founder, Allentown Art Museum, 1939 Awards Bronze Medal, American Artist's Exhibition, Philadelphia, 1918 Jennie Sesnan Gold Medal, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1925 Prize, Springville, Utah, 1932 Prize, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1939 Prize, American Society of Miniature Painters, New York City, 1943 Medal, Philadelphia Watercolor Club, Philadelphia, 1944 Prize, American Watercolor Society, 1945 Prize, Buck Hill Art Association, Pennsylvania, 1945 Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, 1946 M. Grumbacher Purchase Prize for Casein, Audubon Artists, 1953 Medal of Honor, National Arts Club, 1953 Gold Medal Award, daVinci Alliance, Philadelphia, 1956 (awarded posthumously) Major collections Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Toledo Art Museum, Toledo, Ohio National Academy of Design, New York City Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania President Franklin D. Roosevelt See also Baum Circle Baum School of Art References Resources Folk, Thomas. The Pennsylvania Impressionists, with a foreword by James A. Michener (Doylestown and London: James Michener Museum and Associated University Presses, 1997). External links "Walter Emerson Baum, Pennsylvania Artist, 1884-1956", essay by Martha Hutson-Saxton, March 9, 1005. Walter Emerson Baum biographical and career information at the Michener Art Museum. 1884 births 1956 deaths 20th-century American male artists 20th-century American painters American Impressionist painters American male painters Painters from Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts alumni People from Sellersville, Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Impressionism