Shirley Neilsen Blum

Shirley Neilsen Blum
Born
Shirley Marie Neilsen

October 14, 1932 (age 93)
OccupationState University of New York, Purchase
Spouses
(m. 1955; div. 1966)
Irving Blum
(m. 1967; div. 1976)
ChildrenJason Blum
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Chicago,
University of California, Los Angeles

Shirley Hopps Neilsen Blum, also known as Shirley Hopps (born 14 October 1932) is an American art historian, author, gallerist, and professor emeritus at the State University of New York, Purchase (1970–1989). She specializes in Northern Renaissance art, early Netherlandish art, and modern art. In the 1950s through the 1960s, she was active in the Los Angeles gallery scene, and she co-founded and co-ran Ferus Gallery.