Hyman Bloom
Hyman Bloom is the Boston Expressionist painter best known for his paintings of Jews with Torahs, cadavers, and the Lubec Woods are held in museums and private collections around the world. A jewish immigrant growing up in the West End of Boston, he was quickly identified as a talented artist by a grade school teacher and influenced to dig deep into his own creative imagination by Harold K. Zimmerman, a drawing teacher at the West End Settlement House. Later influenced by Harvard University professor Denmon Ross he learned to paint with limited palettes. While Bloom found himself on his own at the young age of twenty his childhood mentors continued to influence his approach to composition and painting through out his career. A self taught scholar of mysticism, art, and eastern music, Bloom spent hours in the Boston Public Library and reading from friends’ collections. He loved to watch experiments, spending hours in the lab of his doctor and long time friend Dr. A. Stone Freedberg. A man of unbridled intellectual curiosity Bloom was often misrepresented as a recluse because he kept odd hours and didn’t socialize at openings. While he did have very lonely solitary periods in his life he was in fact very social. He kept regular lunch (his breakfast) dates with several friends over the years often at Legal Seafood and enjoyed large parties hosted by his wife Stella well into his nineties at their New Hampshire home.
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Hyman Bloom is best known as a forefather of American Abstract art and the Boston Expressionist movement. His masterful paintings of Jews with Torahs, cadavers, the Lubec woods and chandeliers. While he took his time working and reworking paintings, sometimes decades, he was prolific artist. Examples of his work including several paintings, his famous charcoal drawings and later sketches may be viewed in the gallery. Paintings and sketches are also available for sale and licensing. New images will be added soon.
Latest News
March 27th Hyman Bloom The Beauty of All Things screens at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston 6pm. For more information contact the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston or view the calendar listing.
Hyman Bloom: A Spiritual Embrace now at the Yeshiva University Museum