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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1936.85
People
Hyman Bloom, American (Brunoviski, Latvia 1913 - 2009 Nashua, NH)
Title
Dream of an Opium Smoker
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1928
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/306883

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Graphite on tan wove paper
Dimensions
image: 27.2 x 37 cm (10 11/16 x 14 9/16 in.)
actual: 29.8 x 39.4 cm (11 3/4 x 15 1/2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: graphite, lower right: H.B. Late 1928
  • inscription: l.r., graphite: H. B. late 1928

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
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
1936.85
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Dorothy Abbott Thompson, Origins of Boston Expressionism, the Artists' Perspective, exh. cat., De Cordova Museum (Lincoln, MA, 1986), repr. p. 13
  • 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), pp. 60-61, 68, fig. 2.1
  • Timothy Standring, "Hyman Bloom: Matters of Life and Death", Burlington Magazine (London, 2019), Vol. 161, pp. 871-873, p. 871

Exhibition History

  • Unidentified Exhibition, Boris Mirski Gallery, 1949, Boris Mirski Gallery, 02/08/1949 - 04/07/1949
  • Drawings by Hyman Bloom, Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, 11/02/1957 - 12/15/1957; Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, 01/10/1958 - 02/09/1958; Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, 02/25/1958 - 03/30/1958
  • Perception and Illusion, St. Paul's School, Concord, 02/01/1971 - 02/28/1971
  • Hyman Bloom, Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, 04/14/1996 - 07/07/1996
  • 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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