Word: blume
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...news on Manhattan's art-marketing 57th Street last week was a single picture. It had taken three years of planning and three more years of painting. Peter Blume's 6-ft.-wide canvas, which he called The Rock, was a complex allegory of building and decay, done with photographic, Technicolored precision...
...classes taught by Sculptor Chaim Gross (who discovered the Alliance the day after he left Ellis Island), Etchers William Auerbach-Levy, Painter Abbo Ostrowsky. The alumni of these classes include Sculptor Jacob Epstein, Painters Raphael and Isaac Soyer, Peter Blume, Philip Evergood...
...prize winner is by 60-year-old, Indiana-born Wayman Adams, since 1926 a member of the archconservative National Academy, who first showed his Piatigorsky last year at Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum. In the past, Carnegie judges have sometimes recognized painting of decided originality, such as Peter Blume's South of Scranton. This year's safe & sane first choice prompted one observer to wisecrack: "The judges may know a lot about art, but do they know what they like...
Stalwart, square-headed, sandy-haired Peter Blume was born in Russia in 1906, was brought to the U.S. at the age of five. Artist Blume studied at Manhattan's Art Students League, supported himself by running a subway newsstand, working in a jewelry factory and as a lithographer's apprentice. In 1934 his surrealistic South of Scranton, showing sailors soaring through the air under a conning tower, won first prize at the Carnegie International in Pittsburgh...
...Blume puts walloping prices on his canvases (he once asked $15,000 for The Eternal City), because they take him so long to do. He has done about 25 that he would call major, has sold all but one. Of The Eternal City, painted at his home in Gaylordsville, Conn., he says: "Of course, I feel it should take a long time to look at it, maybe three years. After all, it took me three years to paint...