Oscar Florianus Bluemner was an American artist known for his paintings of landscapes and industrial areas. He was associated with Modernism. "Ideally, art, pure, is of a sphere and of no country; the first real artists, always and everywhere, have either been importers or immigrants bringing the light with them," he once said. Born in 1867 in Prenzlau, Kingdom of Prussia, Bluemner later settled in South Braintree, Massachusetts. He studied at the Royal School of Art, Berlin. His work was influenced by Alfred Stieglitz and he was contemporaries with Georgia O'Keeffe and John Marin. Bluemner passed away in 1938. His works are part of the collections at the Homer and Dolly Hand Art Center and the Montclair Art Museum.