Dick Blick Art Materials

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Blick Art Materials store on Santa Monica Boulevard in West Los Angeles, California

Dick Blick Art Materials is a retail and catalog operation that supplies artists and school art programs. It was founded as a mail order business by Dick Blick in 1911 and purchased by Robert Metzenberg in 1948. Its central warehouse and distribution center have always been located in Galesburg, Illinois. Corporate offices are in Highland Park, Illinois. The company operates 33 retail stores in the United States, including 11 that were purchased from The Art Store in 2004. Along with Jerry's Artarama, Cheap Joe's Art Stuff, Pearl Paint, Utrecht Art Supplies, Daniel Smith Artists' Materials, Artist Supply Source, and Mister Art, Dick Blick is one of the primary suppliers of mail order art supplies in the United States. Robert Buchsbaum is the current CEO.

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