Harvard Art Museums > 1936.85: Dream of an Opium Smoker Drawings Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Dream of an Opium Smoker (Hyman Bloom) , 1936.85,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, May 02, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/306883. This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 1936.85 People Hyman Bloom, American (Brunoviski, Latvia 1913 - 2009 Nashua, NH) Title Dream of an Opium Smoker Classification Drawings Work Type drawing Date 1928 Culture American Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/306883 Physical Descriptions Medium Graphite on tan wove paper Dimensions image: 27.2 x 37 cm (10 11/16 x 14 9/16 in.) actual: 29.8 x 39.4 cm (11 3/4 x 15 1/2 in.) Inscriptions and Marks inscription: graphite, lower right: H.B. Late 1928 inscription: l.r., graphite: H. B. late 1928 Provenance Recorded Ownership History Denman W. Ross, Cambridge Massachusetts, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1936. Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Denman W. Ross, Class of 1875 Copyright © Hyman Bloom Estate Accession Year 1936 Object Number 1936.85 Division Modern and Contemporary Art Contact am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Publication History Dorothy Abbott Thompson, Origins of Boston Expressionism, the Artists' Perspective, exh. cat., De Cordova Museum (Lincoln, MA, 1986), repr. p. 13 Judith A. Bookbinder, Boston Modern: Figurative Expressionism as Alternative Modernism, University of New Hampshire Press and University Press of New England (Durham, NH/Hanover, NH and London, 2005), pp. 60-61, 68, fig. 2.1 Timothy Standring, "Hyman Bloom: Matters of Life and Death", Burlington Magazine (London, 2019), Vol. 161, pp. 871-873, p. 871 Exhibition History Unidentified Exhibition, Boris Mirski Gallery, 1949, Boris Mirski Gallery, 02/08/1949 - 04/07/1949 Drawings by Hyman Bloom, Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, 11/02/1957 - 12/15/1957; Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, 01/10/1958 - 02/09/1958; Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, 02/25/1958 - 03/30/1958 Perception and Illusion, St. Paul's School, Concord, 02/01/1971 - 02/28/1971 Hyman Bloom, Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, 04/14/1996 - 07/07/1996 Hyman Bloom: A Matter of Life and Death, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 07/13/2019 - 02/23/2020 Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of Modern and Contemporary Art at am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
