# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/shirley-neilsen-blum
# Generated: 2026-08-15T05:47:39.368Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/shirley-neilsen-blum"
name: "Shirley Neilsen Blum"
slug: "shirley-neilsen-blum"
description: "Shirley Hopps Neilsen Blum, also known as Shirley Hopps is an American art historian, author, gallerist, and professor emeritus at Purchase College (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."
tagline: "American art historian, professor, focused on Northern Renaissance art"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1932-10-14"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           47.61
  momentum:             6.56726308813784
  historical:           1.623333333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     15
  profileCompleteness:  44
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3468037/"
    handle:    "nm3468037"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley_Neilsen_Blum"
    title: "Shirley Neilsen Blum"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19754114"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-relations