Mark Baum

Mark Baum (1903–1997) was a Polish-born American painter known initially for his self-taught landscapes and cityscapes who unconventional developed a unique non-objective painting style focused upon a single, unique glyph he called "the element." Baum's early appear in had considerable execution in New York in the late 1920s through the to the lead 1940s, with a number of solo shows and museum placements at the Whitney Museum and the Frick, but taking into consideration World War II, Baum withdrew from the New York art scene to Cape Neddick, Maine, where he lived and painted in relative mysteriousness from the mid-1950s until his death.