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Extended through October 26
Closing reception and gallery talk by Henry Adams
Professor of Art History at Case Western Reserve and the author of over 400 publications on aspects of American art.
Saturday, October 26th, from 3 to 5 pm

Hyman Bloom at the MFA, Boston
Through February 23, 2020
Hyman Bloom: American Master Installation View

"Bloom’s fascination with the transition between life and death is evident in his most notorious subject – depictions of cadavers and limbs in opulent colors. This is where many viewers find Bloom’s work difficult to look at. For one thing, his sensual brushwork and jewel-like colors sets us into an uneasy relationship with his painting, where we are simultaneously fascinated and repelled" - John Yau
Hyman Bloom, Torso and Limbs , 1952, oil on canvas, 34 1/4 x 52 inches
Hyman Bloom, Self-Portrait with Spider , ca. 1965, charcoal on paper, 65 x 30 3/4 inches

"Spiritual life cannot be delegated; true spiritual experience can only come from within, and it is only through individual effort to deepen the process that a state of grace can be achieved." - Hyman Bloom
Hyman Bloom, Untitled (Landscape) , ca. 1975, oil on canvas, 72 x 55 inches
Closing reception and gallery talk by Henry Adams
Professor of Art History at Case Western Reserve and the author of over 400 publications on aspects of American art.
Saturday, October 26th, from 3 to 5 pm
"In the 1950s, Hyman Bloom (1913 – 2009) was described as “the first Abstract Expressionist,” and while few art historians would describe him as such today, the identity of the two figures who used this phrase should prompt us to give this thought some serious regard: Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, perhaps the two most important and influential artists of the Abstract Expressionist movement, who both clearly saw in Bloom’s painting something inspiring, something that prefigured their own artistic achievement. Franz Kline likewise singled out Bloom, along with Thomas Eakins and Albert Pinkham Ryder, as one of the few American artists whose work had a weight and gravitas that he admired. Surely if Pollock, de Kooning, and Kline admired Bloom, we also should take a second look at his work." - Henry Adams
Additional Hyman Bloom Press

The New Criterion: Exhibition Note by Franklin Einspruch

"When I look at Bloom’s paintings, I don’t see gore, violence, depravity, and darkness, though there have been many who disagree...What I see instead, at his best, is a master painter in supreme balance between intention and emotion, tracking both on the canvas in deliberate, exuberant strokes." - Sebastian Smee
American Art also on view by appointment
Aaron Douglas (American, 1899 - 1979), Study for God's Trombones , 1926, tempera on board, 12 1/2 x 9 3/4 inches

Regular hours are Tuesday - Friday 10 am - 5:30 pm and Saturday 11 am - 5 pm.

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