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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1936.150.746
People
Hyman Bloom, American (Brunoviski, Latvia 1913 - 2009 Nashua, NH)
Title
Portrait of a Seated Young Man with Mirror
Other Titles
Former Title: Seated Youth
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1932
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/230838

Physical Descriptions

Dimensions
53.7 x 38.4 cm (21 1/8 x 15 1/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.l.: Hyman Bloom 1932
  • inscription: on back of canvas, in artist's hand: RO - GB/Venetian R - G. B. Mix [in Bloom's hand?]; HDk Aliz R.-Cad R/or/M Aliz R.-O Verm/Veridian/Fr. Ultra Dk [in DWR's hand]; Hyman/ Bloom [in Bloom's hand]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Hyman Bloom, gift(?); to Denman W. Ross, Cambridge, Massachusetts, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1936.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Denman W. Ross, Class of 1875
Copyright
© Hyman Bloom Estate
Accession Year
1936
Object Number
1936.150.746
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Judith A. Bookbinder, Boston Modern: Figurative Expressionism as Alternative Modernism, University of New Hampshire Press and University Press of New England (Durham, NH/Hanover, NH and London, 2005), p. 83, fig. 2.8

Exhibition History

  • Four Boston Masters, Jewett Arts Center, Wellesley, 04/10/1959 - 05/11/1959; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 05/19/1959 - 06/26/1959

Verification Level

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