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Norman Bluhm

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Norman Bluhm (1921 - 1999) was active/lived in New York, Vermont, Illinois / France.  Norman Bluhm is known for Abstract expressionist painting- fantasy.

An Abstract Expressionist, Norman Bluhm was born in Chicago in 1921, although as a child he lived in Italy for eight years.  His principle education was architecture, and he studied at the Illinois Institute of Technology with Mies van der Rohe.  He also studied briefly in Florence before moving to Paris in 1947 to continue studies at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, where he was exposed to the ideas of the Bauhaus philosophy of bringing together aesthetically arts and crafts.

Prior to and after his studies, Bluhm was a member of the Air Force and served in World War II. After World War II, he lived in Paris with other hopeful American writers and artists of the expatriate scene.  There he developed an interest in nude painting.

In 1956 he moved to New York. The Cedar Tavern was a favorite gathering place where he convened with other painters and writers, such as Frank O'Hara, Franz Kline, William de Kooning, and Jackson Pollock.  Among the work of this not   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 8435 characters.]  Artist bio

Artist auction records

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Artist artworks for sale and wanted

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Research resources

.  askART lists Norman Bluhm in 1 of its research Essays. Norman Bluhm has 8 artist signature examples available in our database.

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Facts about Norman Bluhm

   Publications  Book References:  33
Magazine References:  5

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5 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Norman Bluhm
Magazine Article Date Author Color
ARTnews Art Market November 2004 Kinsella, Eileen Yes
Art in America Nine Lives of Paintings September 1998 Rubinstein, Raphael Yes
Art in America Norman Bluhm February 1995 Johnson, Ken Yes
ARTFORUM Norman Bluhm February 1995 Schwabsky, Barry No
American Art Review The Conceptual Canvas June 1994 AR editors Yes
33 Book References for Norman Bluhm
Year Author Title Pages Color
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)		 The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2003 Herskovic, Marika (editor) American Abstract Expressionism of the 1950s: An Illustrated Survey 372 Yes
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1998 Galt, Margot Fortunato Turning the Feather Around, My Life in Art 205 Yes
1997 Marquis Who's Who Who's Who in American Art, 1997-1998 1515 No
1994 Altshuler, Bruce The Avant-Garde in Exhibition New Art in the 20th Century
(Exhibition catalog)		 288 Yes
1993 Bowker R R Who's Who in American Art, 1993-1994, 20th Edition (American Federation of Arts) 1473 No
1988 Falk, Peter Hastings Dictionary of Signatures & Monogram 556 No
1987 Cummings, Paul Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition) 653 No
1986 Jaques Cattell Press Who's Who in American Art-1986 1986 1292 No
1986 Zellman, Michael David 300 Years of American Art (two volumes) 1102 Yes
1984 Schimmel, Paul Action, Precision The New Direction in New York
(Exhibition catalog)		 159 Yes
1984 Severinghaus, J Walter Art at Work The Chase Manhattan Collection 333 Yes
1983 Bermingham, Peter/Daphne Deeds Paintings and Sculpture In the Permanent Collection 273 Yes
1981 Osborne, Harold The Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century Art 656 Yes
1979 Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 2 (Painting and Graphics) 736 No
1978 Sandler, Irving The New York School The Painters & Sculptors of the Fifties 366 Yes
1976 Anderson, Dennis R (Introductory Essay) Three Hundred Years of American Art In The Chrysler Museum
(Exhibition catalog)		 270 Yes
1976 Jaques Cattell Press Who's Who in American Art, 1976 12th Edition 756 No
1975 Alloway, Lawrence Topics in American Art Since 1945 283 No
1975 Chambers, Bruce W American Paintings in the High Museum of Art/Bicentenial Catalogue 127 Yes
1975 Editor, Smithsonian Smithsonian Archives of American Art: Checklist of the Collection 0 No
1974 Baur, John I H Whitney Museum of American Art Catalogue of the Collection 235 Yes
1974 Buffalo Fine Arts Academy American Art in Upstate New York Drawings, Watercolors and Small Sculptures 80 No
1974 Gidley, Mick Catalogue of American Paintings in British Public Collections 58 No
1973 Onn, Gerald (Translator) Phaidon Dictionary of Twentieth Century Art 0 No
1968 Robbins, Daniel/David W Scott An American Collection The Neuberger Collection 463 Yes
1968 Rubin, William S Dada, Surrealism and Their Heritage (Museum of Modern Art)
(Exhibition catalog)		 252 No
1967 Tokyo, Museum of Modern Art Two Decades of American Painting Gendai Amerika Kaiga Ten 81 Yes
1964 Solomon R Guggenheim Museum American Drawings
(Exhibition catalog)		 48 No
1961 Solomon R Guggenheim Museum American Abstract Expressionists and Imagists
(Exhibition catalog)		 1961 No
1960 Walker Art Center 60 American Painters 1960 Abstract Expressionist Painting of the Fifties
(Exhibition catalog)		 78 Yes
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