HYMAN BLOOM
Born Brunoviski, Latvia, 1913 Died 2009
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019 Hyman Bloom: Matters of Life and Death, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Hyman Bloom American Master, Alexandre Gallery, New York 2013 Alpha Gallery, Boston Massachusetts Hyman Bloom Paintings: 1940 – 2005, White Box, New York 2006 Hyman Bloom: A Spiritual Embrace, The Danforth Museum, Framingham, Massachusetts. Travels to Yeshiva University, New York in 2009. 2002 Color & Ecstasy: The Art of Hyman Bloom, The National Academy of Design, New York 2001 Hyman Bloom: The Lubec Woods, Bates College, Museum of Art. Traveled to Olin Arts Center, Lewiston Maine. 1996 The Spirits of Hyman Bloom: Sixty Years of Painting and Drawing, Fuller Museum, Brockton, Massachusetts 1992 Hyman Bloom: Paintings and Drawings, The Art Gallery, University of New Hampshire, Durham 1990 Hyman Bloom: “Overview” 1940-1990, Terry Dintenfass Gallery, New York 1989 Hyman Bloom Paintings, St. Botolph Club, Boston 1983 Hyman Bloom: Recent Paintings, Terry Dintenfass Gallery, New York 1975 Hyman Bloom: Recent Paintings, Terry Dintenfass Gallery, New York 1972 Hyman Bloom Drawings, Terry Dintenfass Gallery, New York 1971 Hyman Bloom Drawings, Terry Dintenfass Gallery, New York 1968 The Drawings of Hyman Bloom, University of Connecticut of Museum of Art, Storrs. Travels to the San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; and the Boston University School of Fine and Applied Arts Gallery, Boston. 1965 Hyman Bloom Landscape Drawings 1962-1964, Swetzoff Gallery, Boston 1957 Drawings by Hyman Bloom, Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH. Travels to The Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design; and the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT Hyman Bloom Drawings, Swetzoff Gallery, Boston 1954 Hyman Bloom, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston. Travels to Albright Art Gallery Buffalo; the M.H. de Young Museum, San Francisco; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Hyman Bloom, Durlacher Bros, New York 1949 Hyman Bloom, Boris Mirski Gallery. Boston 1948 Hyman Bloom, Durlacher Bros, New York
1946 Paintings by Hyman Bloom, Durlacher Bros, New York 1945 Hyman Bloom: New Paintings, Stuart Art Gallery, Boston
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009 Paint Made Flesh, Philips Collection, Washington, D.C. 2002 Painting in Boston: 1950-2000, DeCordova Museum of Art, Lincoln, Massachussetts 1999 176th Annual Exhibition of the National Academy of Design, New York 1982 Aspects of Realism: 1950-1970, Terry Dintenfass Gallery, New York Realism and Realities: The Other Side of American Painting 1940-1960, Rutgers University Art Gallery, New Brunswick, New Jersey 1980 The Figurative Tradition and the Whitney Museum of Art: Paintings and Sculptures from the Permeant Collection, Whitney Museum of Art, New York 1979 Boston Expressionism: Hyman Bloom, Jack Levine and Karl Zerbe, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston 1978 Boston Draughtsmen, Boston Athenaeum, Boston 1977 Painters, Boston Athenaeum, Boston 1976 Drawings, Boston Athenaeum, Boston New England Works on Paper, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 1975 Jewish Experience in American Art, The Jewish Museum, New York A Jewish Perspective, Boston City Hall, Boston 1974 American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York Contemporary Religious Imagery in American Art, John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Florida 1969 New England Art from New England Museums, Brockton Museum of Art, Brockton, Massachusetts Images, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston A Memorial Exhibition: Selections from the Nathaniel Saltonstall Collection, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston 1968 Modern American Drawings, Museum of Modern Art, New York Boston Painters: 1720 -1967, Boston University School of Fine and Applied Arts, Boston 1967 Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Goldberg, Watson Gallery, Wheaton College, Norton, Massachusetts American Drawings, 1776-1967, Tragos Gallery, Boston The Beach Collection, University of Connecticut Museum of Art, Storrs, Connecticut 1965 New England Art in Five Parts—Drawing—Part I, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts 1964 Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Goldberg, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
1962 Selections from the DANA Collection: A Memorial Exhibition for Lester H. Dana, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston 1961 Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Goldberg, Crapo Gallery, Swain School of Design, New Bedford, Massachusetts 1960 Francis Bacon – Hyman Bloom, The Art Galleries, University of California at Los Angeles Edith Gregory Halpert Collection, Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D.C. Works from Private Collections, Boston University Art Gallery 1959 Four Boston Masters, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Moscow Fair: American Paintings and Sculpture 1930 – 1959, Moscow, U.S.S.R. 1956 The Roy and Marie Neuherger Collection: Modern American Painting and Sculpture, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston Expressionism 1900-1955, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston 1954 Younger American Painters, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York 1953 Bienal in Sao Paulo, Museu de Art Moderna, Sao Paulo, Brazil 1952 Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, University of Illinois, Urbana Expressionism and American Painting, Albright Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York 1951 Amerikanishe Malerei: Werden and Gegenwart, Schloss Charlottenburg, Berlin, Germany Sixtieth Annual Exhibition, The Art Institute of Chicago 1950 Biennial Exhibition of American Painting, Virginia Museum, Richmond 35 American Painters, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven Contemporary Paintings from the Addison Gallery, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston 1948 The School of Boston, Downtown Gallery, New York 1948 Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York 1947 The Giving of the Law and the Ten Commandments, Inaugural Exhibition, The Jewish Museum, New York American Painting of Today, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts Fifty-Eighth Annual American Exhibition: Paintings and Sculpture, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Thirty Massachusetts Painters, Institute of Modern Art, Boston 1946 American Painting from the Eighteenth Century to the Present Day, Tate Gallery, London 1945 Contemporary American Painting, Worchester Art Museum, Massachusetts The Critic’s Choice of Contemporary American Painting, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati American Painting, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco 1944 Religious Art Today, Institute of Modern Art, Boston 1942 Americans 1942: 18 Artists from 9 States, Museum of Modern Art, New York 1933 An Experiment in Art Teaching, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts
AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
1959 Ford Foundation Fellowship 1951 Fogg Museum Fellowship in Painting and Drawing, Harvard University 1953 Academy Award in Art, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York 1949 Guggenheim Fellowship
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, Little Rock Art Institute of Chicago Bowdoin College Museum of Art DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA Davis Museum, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC Jewish Museum, New York Los Angeles County Museum Minnesota Museum of Art, St. Paul Museum of Art, University of New Hampshire Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Museum of Modern Art, New York Museum of the National Academy of Design, New York Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY Princeton Museum of Art, Princeton University Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA Skirball Museum, Hebrew Union College, Los Angeles, CA Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago Smith College Art Museum, Northampton, MA Smithsonian American Art Museum Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, GA Whitney Museum of American Art, New York William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut, Storrs Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA Yeshiva University Museum, New York