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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1933.39
People
Hyman Bloom, American (Brunoviski, Latvia 1913 - 2009 Nashua, NH)
Title
Wrestlers
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1930
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/306619

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black crayon and graphite on thin darkened off-white wove paper
Dimensions
actual: 32 x 48.3 cm (12 5/8 x 19 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: l.r., graphite: 1930

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Louise E. Bettens Fund
Copyright
© Hyman Bloom Estate
Accession Year
1933
Object Number
1933.39
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Pinholes at all corners.

Publication History

  • Daniel M. Mendelowitz and Duane A. Wakeham, Mendelowitz's Guide to Drawing, Holt, Rinehart & Winston (New York, NY, 1982), p. 207
  • Dorothy Abbott Thompson, Origins of Boston Expressionism, the Artists' Perspective, exh. cat., De Cordova Museum (Lincoln, MA, 1986), repr. p. 14

Exhibition History

  • Unidentified Exhibition, Hudson D. Walker, 1933, Hudson D. Walker, Minneapolis, 04/18/1933 - 06/30/1933
  • Unidentified Exhibition, Boris Mirski Gallery, 1949, Boris Mirski Gallery, 02/08/1949 - 04/07/1949
  • Hyman Bloom Retrospective, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Boston, 04/01/1954 - 04/30/1954; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 02/09/1955 - 04/03/1955
  • Unidentified Exhibition, Lamont Library, 1959, Lamont Library, Cambridge, 03/06/1959 - 04/01/1959
  • Hyman Bloom: A Matter of Life and Death, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 07/13/2019 - 02/23/2020

Verification Level

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