Word: blume
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...drawings by U.S. artists. Three months ago she gave a group of her bargains to Dartmouth College. Last week she gave most of the rest to the Museum of Modern Art. There were 181 water colors, drawings and a few paintings by 71 men and women, including Peter Blume, Alexander Brook, Charles Burchfield, André Derain, John Kane the housepainter (see above), Henri Matisse, Amedeo Modigliani, Georgia O'Keeffe, Pablo Picasso. Said the Museum's President, A. Conger Goodyear: "Next to the bequest of Miss Lillie P. Bliss, Mrs. Rockefeller's gift is the most important...
...March 18), were familiar to the public before the show opened. Almost all of them were painted in the modern idiom. Instead of the exhausting acres of mediocrity of previous shows, only 260 oils were on view, and among them were exhibitors few expected to find there: Surrealist Peter Blume (TIME, Nov. 26, et seq.), Reginald Marsh, John Steuart Curry, Guy Pène du Bois...
Before the public was admitted to Pittsburgh's Carnegie International, generally considered the most important annual art show in the U. S., the jury went through the galleries and awarded the $1,500 first prize to Peter Blume's colorful surrealist design entitled South of Scranton. The award moved the U. S. Press to great bursts of sarcasm, but the Carnegie Institute directors bided their time (TIME, Oct. 29). Last week the show closed. All who visited it were given ballots and asked to vote for their favorite among the 356 paintings exhibited. With a total of 1,920 votes...
...finished with surrealism years ago. Surrealism may be described as painting the facts of dreams. Example: A little man with a head on which cabbages grow, carrying a huge spoon across a rocky mountain, all painted in meticulous mid-Victorian detail. Month ago a U.S. surrealist named Peter Blume won first prize ($1,500) at the Carnegie International Exhibition in Pittsburgh with his South of Scranton (TIME, Oct. 29). Last week a still abler Parisian surrealist named Salvador Dali arrived in Manhattan with a load of minutely painted canvases to bewilder the eye of logic...
Last week Peter Blume's South of Scranton (see cut) won first prize ($1,500) in the Carnegie International Exhibition of Paintings at Pittsburgh, against 356 other canvases by 296 other artists from 13 countries. A surrealist picture, South of Scranton was characterized by flat, bright colors, razor-sharp outlines. Rare indeed was the critic who dared to stand up and cheer for it. The New York Sun's Henry McBride, after a long description of his train trip to Pittsburgh during which a "sudden lurch" threw "an exceedingly handsome young woman'' into his arms, finally...