Director’s Foreword • Preface • A Body of Work | Erica E. Hirshler • Painting the Dead | Naomi Slipp • Life after Death| Erica E. Hirshler • Plates
Erica E. Hirshler is the Croll Senior Curator of American Paintings at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Naomi Slipp is Assistant Professor of Art History, Fine Art Department, Auburn University at Montgomery, Alabama.
Hyman Bloom blurred the boundaries between figurative and abstract
painting during the late 1930s. He abandoned what was easy and
instead punted for the difficult.
*Burlington*
The paintings, along with a selection of dazzling, large-scale
drawings, are the subject of a superb, long-awaited [show and
monograph,] “Hyman Bloom: Matters of Life and Death."
*Washington Post*
[Hyman Bloom's] vital, vivid paintings of the human body in life
and death exist in that taut place between seductive and revolting,
between beautiful and terrifying, which is to say, that edge up
against the sublime.
*Boston Globe*
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