Zevi Blum was born in Paris, France in 1933. He earned his Bachelor of Architecture at Cornell University in 1957 and worked as a licensed architect in New York City for a number of years following graduation. Zevi’s true passion had always been art, and starting in the late 1960s, he became a full time artist working primarily with pen and ink and watercolors. During this period he showed at a number of galleries, including The Farr and Contemporaries Galleries in New York. He died 2011.