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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1936.94
People
Hyman Bloom, American (Brunoviski, Latvia 1913 - 2009 Nashua, NH)
Title
Wrestlers; verso: Wrestlers; male head
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1930
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/306916

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black crayon over graphite on brown wove paper
Dimensions
actual: 25.5 x 35.6 cm (10 1/16 x 14 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • exhibition label: removed from old backing, now in curatorial file, paper, printed, typed, and handwritten: [typed:] Cat. no. 15, TR no. [handwritten, black ink:] 15/80

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
1936.94
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Kenyon Castle Bolton, III, Peter G. Huenink, Earl A. Powell III, Harry Z. Rand, and Nanette C. Sexton, American Art at Harvard, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1972), cat. 145, ill.
  • David Martocci, The Male Nude: catalogue and exhibition, exh. cat., Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute (Williamstown, MA, 1980), no. 15, repr. pl. 15
  • [Reproduction only], Exposé (Essays from the Harvard Expository Writing Program), Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, 1995 - 1996)., recto repr. p. 9
  • Hyman Bloom, exh. cat., Chameleon Books (New York, NY?, 1996), repr. p. 21
  • John Wilmerding, American Art in the Princeton University Art Museum, Volume I: Drawings and Watercolors, Princeton University Art Museum (New Haven and London, 2004), p. 228, fig. 1
  • 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. 70, fig. 2.5
  • Stephen C. P. Gardner, Gateways to Drawing: A Complete Guide, Thames & Hudson (New York, 2018), pp. 156-157, repr. p. 157 as fig. 7.11

Exhibition History

  • Unidentified Exhibition, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, 1938, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 04/21/1938 - 06/06/1938
  • Unidentified Exhibition, Boris Mirski Gallery, 1949, Boris Mirski Gallery, 02/08/1949 - 04/07/1949
  • American Art at Harvard, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/19/1972 - 06/18/1972
  • 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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