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When in 1932 Italy celebrated the tenth anniversary of Mussolini's March on Rome, Peter Blume was there. Traveling on a Guggenheim Fellowship, he saw among Rome's ruins many things that stayed with him, from a scowling papier mache image of II Duce to a tawdry effigy of Christ adorned with trinkets by Italy's praying poor. Back in the U.S., Blume spent two years pondering what he had seen, the next three years painting the vivid, swarming detail of The Eternal City with its popeyed Mussolini...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Roman Token | 3/15/1943 | See Source »

...Peter Blume's hopes and prophecies were clear enough on his canvas. Italian workers strove toward the sunlit Forum. Mounted Fascist officers, attempting to prevent them, were dragged from their chargers while the uniformed ranks showed signs of mutiny. But many critics seemed decidedly obtuse about The Eternal City. New York Times Critic Edward Alden Jewell declared: "The political aspects of this treatise are not altogether clear. We are left in doubt as to whether the propagandist considers this modern dictator a self-sprung megalomaniac or a figurehead manipulated by social forces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Roman Token | 3/15/1943 | See Source »

...last week Peter Blume's undertaking would have been understood and applauded by almost any U.S. citizen. His painting, as painting-high drama rendered with almost photographic realism-has always had a very wide appeal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Roman Token | 3/15/1943 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Roman Token | 3/15/1943 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Roman Token | 3/15/1943 | See Source »

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