American, 1868 - 1923
Bohm was attending the Cleveland Art School when he was eleven years old; by age sixteen he was selling his work. In 1887 his aunt, Anna Weitz, an artist, took him to Paris to study at the Acad‚mie Julian. By 1895 he was settled in Etaples, France, painting and teaching. His work was received favorably; in 1898 his En Mer received a gold medal at the Paris Salon. That same year he married Zella Newcomb, a Minnesotan who had studied with him at Etaples. Another student at Etaples, Mrs. Mary B. Longyear, a leading member of the Christian Scientist movement, converted the young couple to that [philosophy/faith ?]. Mrs. Longyear commissioned a number of works from Bohm for her home in Brookline, Massachusetts, which later became the Mary Baker Eddy Museum.
Beginning in 1904, the Bohms spent most of their winters in London and summers in various locations along the French sea coast. Brief trips were made to America in 1901-02 to spend time with their families, and in 1910 to install mural decorations in the Cleveland Court House. The Academy's winter exhibition of 1913 was Bohm's first appearance in an Academy show, at which time he was represented by the Macbeth Galleries; he continued a consistent exhibitor with the Academy to his death.
With the outbreak of World War I in 1914, the Bohms moved to London, but in 1915 returned to the United States permanently. Bohm's work on a major, three-panel mural, Music in Nature, commissioned in 1913 by Mrs. Longyear for the music room of her home, was an encouragment to return. The mural was installed in 1916, after exhibition at Knoedler's Gallery, New York. Bohm built a house and studio in Bronxville, New York, and summered in Provincetown, Massachusetts, where he joined the circle around Charles Hawthorne whom he had known in Europe.
Beginning in 1904, the Bohms spent most of their winters in London and summers in various locations along the French sea coast. Brief trips were made to America in 1901-02 to spend time with their families, and in 1910 to install mural decorations in the Cleveland Court House. The Academy's winter exhibition of 1913 was Bohm's first appearance in an Academy show, at which time he was represented by the Macbeth Galleries; he continued a consistent exhibitor with the Academy to his death.
With the outbreak of World War I in 1914, the Bohms moved to London, but in 1915 returned to the United States permanently. Bohm's work on a major, three-panel mural, Music in Nature, commissioned in 1913 by Mrs. Longyear for the music room of her home, was an encouragment to return. The mural was installed in 1916, after exhibition at Knoedler's Gallery, New York. Bohm built a house and studio in Bronxville, New York, and summered in Provincetown, Massachusetts, where he joined the circle around Charles Hawthorne whom he had known in Europe.
