Shirley Neilsen Blum

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.