Harvard Art Museums > 1958.84: Passage to Etna Paintings Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Passage to Etna (Peter Blume) , 1958.84,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, May 15, 2025, https://hvrd.art/o/228647. This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 1958.84 People Peter Blume, American (Smorgon, Russia 1906 - 1992 New Milford, CT) Title Passage to Etna Other Titles Former Title: Passage to Aetna Classification Paintings Work Type painting Date 1956 Places Creation Place: North America, United States Culture American Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/228647 Physical Descriptions Medium Oil on canvas Dimensions 196.9 x 98.4 cm (77 1/2 x 38 3/4 in.) framed: 216.5 x 116.2 x 6.4 cm (85 1/4 x 45 3/4 x 2 1/2 in.) Inscriptions and Marks Signed: u.c.: Peter Blume 1956 Provenance Recorded Ownership History Edward L. Holsten, New York, New York, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1958. Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Edward L. Holsten Copyright © Peter Blume Estate / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York Accession Year 1958 Object Number 1958.84 Division Modern and Contemporary Art Contact am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Publication History Peter Blume in Retrospect, exh. cat., Currier Museum of Art (Manchester, NH, 1964), p. 22, no. 25 Lloyd Goodrich, Art of the United States: 1670-1966, exh. cat., Whitney Museum of American Art (New York, NY, 1966), p. 147, cat. 25, ill. p. 115 Peter Blume, exh. cat., American Water Color Society (Chicago, IL, 1976), in checklist Peter Blume: The Italian Drawings, exh. cat., Mead Art Museum (Amherst, MA, 1985), ill. n.p. Frank Anderson Trapp, Peter Blume, Rizzoli (New York, NY, 1987), ill. p. 103, p. 102 (detail, color) Robert Cozzolino, ed., Peter Blume: Nature and Metamorphosis, exh. cat., Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Philadelphia, 2014), p. 259, fig. 125, ill. (color) Exhibition History Unidentified Exhibition, Durlacher Bros. Galleries, 1958, Durlacher Bros. Galleries, New York, 03/01/1958 - 03/31/1958 Unidentified Exhibition, Fogg Art Museum, 1958, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 11/01/1958 - 12/01/1958 Peter Blume in Retrospect, Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, 04/16/1964 - 05/31/1964; Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, 07/09/1964 - 08/16/1964 Past and Present, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 06/01/1966 - 09/15/1966 Art of the United States, 1670-1966, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 09/27/1966 - 11/27/1966 Perception and Illusion, St. Paul's School, Concord, 02/01/1971 - 02/28/1971 Peter Blume, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Chicago, 01/10/1976 - 02/29/1976 The Surreal City: 1930s-1950s, Fred L. Emerson Gallery, Clinton, 01/04/1986 - 02/10/1986 Re-View: S425A (Small Niche) Peter Blume, Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 06/04/2010 - 09/04/2010 32Q: 1320 Social Realism, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/05/2016 - 03/29/2017 Related Objects Object Number 1960.702.8 Artist Peter Blume Title Three Sketches for "Passage to Etna" Classification Drawings Object Number 1960.708.1 Artist Peter Blume Title Five Small Sketches for "Passage to Etna" Classification Drawings Object Number 1960.708.6 Artist Peter Blume Title Sketch for "Passage to Etna" Classification Drawings Object Number 1960.708.9 Artist Peter Blume Title Sketch for "Passage to Etna" Classification Drawings Object Number 1960.708.3 Artist Peter Blume Title Two Small Sketches for "Passage to Etna" Classification Drawings Object Number 1960.708.5 Artist Peter Blume Title Sketch for "Passage to Etna" Classification Drawings Object Number 1960.708.4 Artist Peter Blume Title Several Small Sketches for "Passage to Etna" Classification Drawings Object Number 1960.715 Artist Peter Blume Title Shirt on a Line, for "Passage to Etna" Classification Drawings Object Number 1960.708.8 Artist Peter Blume Title Sketch for "Passage to Etna" Classification Drawings Object Number 1960.708.7 Artist Peter Blume Title Sketch for "Passage to Etna" Classification Drawings Object Number 1960.708.2 Artist Peter Blume Title Sketch for "Passage to Etna" Classification Drawings Object Number 1960.702.3 Artist Peter Blume Title Nine Small Sketches for "Passage to Etna" Classification Drawings Object Number 1960.702.9 Artist Peter Blume Title Two Sketches for "Passage to Etna" Classification Drawings Object Number 1960.702.6 Artist Peter Blume Title Sketch for "Passage to Etna" Classification Drawings Object Number 1960.702.2 Artist Peter Blume Title Sketch for "Passage to Etna" Classification Drawings Object Number 1960.702.5 Artist Peter Blume Title Sketch for "Passage to Etna" Classification Drawings Object Number 1960.702.7 Artist Peter Blume Title Sketch for "Passage to Etna" Classification Drawings Object Number 1960.702.4 Artist Peter Blume Title Sketch for "Passage to Etna" Classification Drawings Object Number 1960.702.10 Artist Peter Blume Title Two Sketches for "Passage to Etna" Classification Drawings Object Number 1960.689 Artist Peter Blume Title Tombs and Columns, for "Passage to Etna" Classification Drawings Object Number 1960.690 Artist Peter Blume Title Shirts on a Line, for "Passage to Etna" Classification Drawings Object Number 1960.692 Artist Peter Blume Title Two Shirts II, for "Passage to Etna" Classification Drawings Object Number 1960.694 Artist Peter Blume Title Clothing on a Line, for "Passage to Etna" Classification Drawings Object Number 1960.696 Artist Peter Blume Title Skeletal Foot, for "Passage to Etna" Classification Drawings Object Number 1960.697 Artist Peter Blume Title Preliminary Sketch for "Passage to Etna" Classification Drawings Object Number 1960.693 Artist Peter Blume Title Two Shirts III; verso: Clothes on Line, both for "Passage to Etna" Classification Drawings Object Number 1960.695 Artist Peter Blume Title Skull and Bones in a Tomb; verso: Skull, both for "Passage to Etna" Classification Drawings Object Number 1960.704 Artist Peter Blume Title Study for "Passage to Etna" Classification Drawings Object Number 1960.707 Artist Peter Blume Title Skeleton Hands, for "Passage to Etna" Classification Drawings Object Number 1960.688 Artist Peter Blume Title Studies of Catacombs, for "Passage to Etna" Classification Drawings Object Number 1960.698 Artist Peter Blume Title Clothing on a Line, for "Passage to Etna" Classification Drawings Object Number 1960.701 Artist Peter Blume Title Studies of a Catacomb; verso: Skull and Bones, both for "Passage to Etna" Classification Drawings Object Number 1960.711 Artist Peter Blume Title Study for Drapery II, for "Passage to Etna" Classification Drawings Object Number 1960.716 Artist Peter Blume Title Shirt on a Line, for "Passage to Etna" Classification Drawings Object Number 1960.717 Artist Peter Blume Title Sweater on a Line, for "Passage to Etna" Classification Drawings Object Number 1960.719 Artist Peter Blume Title Buildings, Clotheslines, and Columns, for "Passage to Etna" Classification Drawings Object Number 1960.724 Artist Peter Blume Title Study for "Passage to Etna" Classification Drawings Object Number 1960.691 Artist Peter Blume Title Two Hanging Shirts; verso: Hanging Shirts, both for "Passage to Etna" Classification Drawings Object Number 1960.700 Artist Peter Blume Title Pelvis, for "Passage to Etna" Classification Drawings Object Number 1960.702.1 Artist Peter Blume Title Sketch for "Passage to Etna" Classification Drawings Object Number 1960.705 Artist Peter Blume Title Skull, for "Passage to Etna" Classification Drawings Object Number 1960.709 Artist Peter Blume Title Three Hanging Shirts, for "Passage to Etna" Classification Drawings Object Number 1960.686 Artist Peter Blume Title Study of Ruins, for "Passage to Etna" Classification Drawings Object Number 1960.699 Artist Peter Blume Title Detail of a Skeleton, for "Passage to Etna" Classification Drawings Object Number 1960.703 Artist Peter Blume Title Woman Hanging Wash, for "Passage to Etna" Classification Drawings Object Number 1960.706 Artist Peter Blume Title Two Lines of Wash, for "Passage to Etna" Classification Drawings Object Number 1960.710 Artist Peter Blume Title Study for Drapery I, for "Passage to Etna" Classification Drawings Object Number 1960.712 Artist Peter Blume Title Four Hanging Shirts, for "Passage to Etna" Classification Drawings Object Number 1960.722 Artist Peter Blume Title Hanging Shirt III, for "Passage to Etna" Classification Drawings Object Number 1960.713 Artist Peter Blume Title Drapery Studies, for "Passage to Etna" Classification Drawings Object Number 1960.714 Artist Peter Blume Title Dresses on a Line, for "Passage to Etna" Classification Drawings Object Number 1960.718 Artist Peter Blume Title Hanging Trousers, for "Passage to Etna" Classification Drawings Object Number 1960.723 Artist Peter Blume Title Study for "Passage to Etna" Classification Paintings Object Number 1960.687 Artist Peter Blume Title Sketch of Broken Columns, for "Passage to Etna" Classification Drawings Object Number 1960.720 Artist Peter Blume Title Gray Shirt, for "Passage to Etna" Classification Drawings Object Number 1960.721 Artist Peter Blume Title Hanging Shirt II, for "Passage to Etna" Classification Drawings Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. 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