Editing Ernest L. Blumenschein (section)

==Early life and education==
Ernest Blumenschein was born on May 26, 1874, in [[Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania|Pittsburgh]], Pennsylvania, near fellow German immigrant<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Larson |first1=Robert W. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zUUV3yFayhoC&dq=Ernest+L.+Blumenschein%3A+The+Life+of+an+American+Artist%2C+Ernest+Blumenschein+was+sufficiently+intrigued+by+the+possibility+of+Jewish+descent+in+his+family+to+remember+distinctly+in+a+January+1927+interview&pg=RA1-PA1857 |title=Ernest L. Blumenschein: The Life of an American Artist |last2=Larson |first2=Carole B. |date=2013-05-07 |publisher=University of Oklahoma Press |isbn=978-0-8061-8901-7 |language=en}}</ref> families.<ref name=Peters/>  In 1877, his father accepted a position as director of the [[Dayton Philharmonic]] in Ohio, where Blumenschein grew up.  When he finished high school, Blumenschein received a scholarship to study violin at the [[College of Music of Cincinnati]].<ref name=Peters/><ref>Hassrick (2008), p. 16</ref>

While in [[Cincinnati, Ohio|Cincinnati]], he also attended an illustration course from [[Fernand Lungren]] at the [[Cincinnati Art Academy]], causing him to change his studies from music to art.  He moved to New York City in 1892, studying at the  [[Art Students League of New York]]. Attracted by the idea of studying art in Europe, he  enrolled at the [[Académie Julian]]<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=AVGp61XYpn0C&dq=Acad%C3%A9mie+Julian&pg=PT98 Lyn Bleiler,Society of the Muse of the Southwest''Taos'']</ref> in Paris in 1894. There he met and became friends with [[Bert Phillips]] and the older and more experienced artist [[Joseph Henry Sharp]], who told the two younger artists about his 1893 visit to [[Taos, New Mexico]].<ref name=Peters/>