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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1994.71
People
Hyman Bloom, American (Brunoviski, Latvia 1913 - 2009 Nashua, NH)
Title
On the Astral Plane: Beelzebub, Half-Length
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1966
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/310547

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black crayon, charcoal, and white chalk on off-white wove paper
Dimensions
diameter (irregular): 98.2 cm (38 11/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.r., black crayon(?): 66 / HB[?]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Hyman Bloom, gift; to Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Denenberg, Boston, Massachusetts, sold; to David P. Becker, Portland, Maine, 1971, gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1994.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of David P. Becker
Copyright
© Hyman Bloom Estate
Accession Year
1994
Object Number
1994.71
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Drawing is circular, with tabs at the top and bottom (drawing measures 107.7 from tab to tab); tabs are covered with charcoal/crayon.

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), pp. 157-158, fig. 4.13

Exhibition History

  • The Drawings of Hyman Bloom, University of Connecticut Museum of Art, Storrs, 04/19/1968 - 05/19/1968; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, 06/27/1968 - 08/04/1968; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 09/17/1968 - 10/27/1968; Boston University Art Galleries, Boston, 11/08/1968 - 12/07/1968

Verification Level

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