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Museums page for Peter Blume ((1906 - 1992)), known for Surreal landscape-genre and figure painting. Showing 25 museum collections and exhibitions.
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1906 Smorgon, Russia - 1992 New Milford, Connecticut. Known for: Surreal landscape-genre and figure painting.
Noted for his surrealist- tinged figuration called 'magic realism', Peter Blume remained outside any clearly defined current of American art, and throughout his sixty year career rarely veered from... Read full biography
Noted for his surrealist- tinged figuration called 'magic realism', Peter Blume remained outside any clearly defined current of American art, and throughout his sixty year career rarely veered from the quirky narrative style he developed in his twenties. Born in Smorgon, Russia, Peter Blume's... Read full biography
Noted for his surrealist- tinged figuration called 'magic realism', Peter Blume remained outside any clearly defined current of American art, and throughout his sixty year career rarely veered from the quirky narrative style he developed in his twenties. Born in Smorgon, Russia, Peter Blume's parents emigrated to the United States in 1911, and settled in Brooklyn, New York, around 1912. Blume's father worked in the clothing trade as a 'marker', laying out patterns on fabric. Blume studied art... Read full biography
Noted for his surrealist- tinged figuration called 'magic realism', Peter Blume remained outside any clearly defined current of American art, and throughout his sixty year career rarely veered from the quirky narrative style he developed in his twenties. Born in Smorgon, Russia, Peter Blume's parents emigrated to the United States in 1911, and settled in Brooklyn, New York, around 1912. Blume's father worked in the clothing trade as a 'marker', laying out patterns on fabric. Blume studied art from the age of 13 at evening classes, then at the Educational Alliance in the lower East Side of New York, where he learned about modern art and also met numerous artists. He then went on to study at the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design, and the Art... Read full biography
Noted for his surrealist- tinged figuration called 'magic realism', Peter Blume remained outside any clearly defined current of American art, and throughout his sixty year career rarely veered from the quirky narrative style he developed in his twenties. Born in Smorgon, Russia, Peter Blume's parents emigrated to the United States in 1911, and settled in Brooklyn, New York, around 1912. Blume's father worked in the clothing trade as a 'marker', laying out patterns on fabric. Blume studied art from the age of 13 at evening classes, then at the Educational Alliance in the lower East Side of New York, where he learned about modern art and also met numerous artists. He then went on to study at the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design, and the Art Students League. By age nineteen his work was being shown by Charles Daniel, one of the few art dealers ha... Read full biography
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Museums & Collections (25)
All MuseumsBlanton Museum of Art, University of Texas (Austin)
200 E. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd,
Austin, TX 78712-0338Butler Institute of American Art
524 Wick Avenue
Youngstown, OH 44502Carnegie Museum of Art
4400 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213-4080Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio
480 East Broad Street
Columbus, OH 43215-3886Maier Museum of Art, Randolph College
Randolph-Macon Woman's College
One Quinlan Street
Lynchburg, VA 24503-1526McNay Art Museum
6000 North New Braunfels Avenue
San Antonio, TX 78209-0069Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Avenue
New York City, NY 10028Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA)
465 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02115Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
1001 Bissonnet
Po Box 6826
Houston, TX 77005Museum of Modern Art, New York
11 West 53rd Street
New York City, NY 10019National Museum of American Art-Smithsonian
8th and G Streets NW
Washington, DC 20004Phaidon Press Inc
111 Broadway, Suite 301
New York, NY 10006San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, SFMOMA
151 Third Street
San Francisco, CA 94103Sara Roby Foundation Collection, Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM)
G St. NW & 8th St. NW
Washington, DC 20004Sheldon Museum of Art
12th &Amp; R Streets
Lincoln, NE 68588-0300Smith College Museum of Art
20 Elm Street at Bedford Terrace
Northampton, MA 01063The Cleveland Museum of Art
11150 East Boulevard
Cleveland, OH 44106-1797The Columbus Museum (COMU)
1251 Wynnton Road
Columbus, GA 31906The John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art
5401 Bay Shore Road
Sarasota, FL 34243The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
4525 Oak Street
Kansas City, MO 64111-1873The Newark Museum of Art
49 Washington Street
Newark, NJ 07102The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
118 N. Broad Street
Philadelphia, PA 19102Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
600 Main Street
Hartford, CT 06103-2990Whitney Museum of American Art
99 Ganesvoort Street
New York City, NY 10014