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Donald Stanley Bloom (1932) is an American painter, cartoonist, and art educator.

Early life
Donald Bloom was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1953 from Massachusetts College of Art, and a Master of Fine Arts degree in 1957 from Instituto Allende, in San Miguel, Mexico. He also earned teaching credits at Rutgers University School of Education, Kean College, and Jersey City State College. In 1956, the Newark News selected him as one of five "Artists of the Year" in New Jersey. In 1960 Bloom received the Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Painting, and in 1964 and 1965 he received the Huntington Hartford Fellowship.

Career
Bloom taught in the Piscataway, New Jersey Schools from 1958 until 1992, when he retired. He was an Art Supervisor, Grades K-12, and was also an Instructor at Trenton State College. He served as an Editorial Cartoonist for Greater Media Newspapers from 1978-90.

In the Suburban Newspapers of America's annual journalism competition, he was selected twice for the national award, second place in 1985 and third place in 1988 in the category of Best Editorial Page Cartoon.

Bloom has been a professional caricaturist and illustrator from 1980 to the present. He was commissioned to do artwork for many cachets or "first-day covers"—miniature artwork that is on the envelope associated with a new stamp. He also illustrated Piscataway Story (1982), a two-volume workbook for children, authored by Margery Oleskie.

Bloom has had dozens of one-man shows and won national prizes for his paintings. His work has been selected for the Whitney Annual of American Painting, and appears in many prominent public and private collections, including the estates of Rod Steiger and Billy Rose. Ten of his editorial cartoons are in the permanent collection of the International Museum of Cartoon Art, Boca Raton, Florida. His first-day covers were displayed at the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York. In 2010 he held a one-man show at the Triumph Brewing Company in Princeton, New Jersey.

Personal life
Donald Bloom has a daughter, Deborah Berman, and two stepchildren, Rich Julius and Lisa Hughes.