Bibliography

Bibliography from "Modern Mystic: The Art of Hyman Bloom"
Compiled by Robert Alimi

Archives

Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
  • Kirk Askew Papers, 1928-1967
  • Hyman Bloom Papers, 1936-1980
  • Terry Dintenfass, Inc. Records, 1947-1987, bulk 1961-1983
  • Terry Dintenfass, oral history interview by Paul Cummings, December 2, 1974-January 13, 1975
  • Downtown Gallery Records, 1824-1974, bulk
    1926-1969
  • Oral history interview with Ernst Halberstadt, February 16, 1979
  • Jack Levine Papers, 1923-1999
  • Oral history interview with Dorothy C. Miller, May 26, 1970-September 28, 1971
  • Boris Mirski Gallery Records, 1936-2000
  • Boris Mirski, interview by Robert F. Brown, June 19, 1973
  • Carl E. and Rosamond Forbes Pickhardt Papers concerning Harold K. Zimmerman, ca.1932-1943
  • Swetzoff Gallery Records, 1941-1968
  • Harold K. Zimmerman Papers, 1930-1954

 

Armenian Cultural Foundation Archives, Armenian Cultural Foundation, Arlington, Massachusetts
  • Elizabeth Gregory, interview by Martin Berkofsky, May 22, 2005, 
  • The Alan Hovhaness Collection, Special Collections no. 3, CD 27 Dr. Elizabeth Gregory
 
Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, California
  • Durlacher Bros. Records, 1919-1973
 
Harvard University Archives, Cambridge, Massachusetts
  • Max Rinkel Papers, 1925-1966
 
The Museum of Modern Art Archives, New York
  • Department of Painting and Sculpture: Artists Records, l.30, Hyman Bloom Dorothy C. Miller Papers
  • The Museum of Modern Art Exhibition Records 1929 1959, Americans 1942: 18 Artists from 9 States, MoMA Exh. #168, January 21-March 8, 1942

 

Wellesley College Archives, Wellesley,   Massachusetts 
  • Exhibitions: 1959, Four Boston Masters, April 10-May 11

 

Whitney Museum of American Art Archives, New York
  • Exhibitions 1931-2000, Hyman Bloom-Jack Levine Retrospective, February 23-April 3, 1955
  • Exhibitions 1931-2000, The Drawings of Hyman Bloom, September 17-October 27, 1968

 

Books

  • Barr, Alfred. Painting and Sculpture in the Museum of Modern Art. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1948.
  • Baur, John I. H. Revolution and Tradition in Modern American Art. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Pr ess, 1951.
  • Baur, John I. H., ed. New Art in America: Fifty Painters of the 20th Century. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1957.
  • Bookbinder, Judith. Boston Modern: Figurative Expressionism as Alternative Modernism. Durham: University of New Hampshire Press; Hanover: University Press of New England, 2005.
  • Chaet , Bernard. Artists at Work. Cambridge, MA: Webb Books, 1960
  • Dervaux, Isabelle, ed. Color and Ecstasy: The Art of Hyman Bloom. Exh. cat. New York: National Academy of Design, 2002.
  • Dissent: The Issue of Modern Art in Boston. Exh. cat. Boston: Institute of Contemporary Art, 1985. Distributed by Northeastern University Press.
  • Eliot, Alexander. Three Hundred Years of American Painting. New York: Time, Inc. Publications, 1957.
  • French, Katherine. Hyman Bloom: A Spiritual Embrace. Exh. cat. Framingham, MA: Danforth Museum of Art, 2006.
  • Goldstein, Nathan. The Art of Responsive Drawing. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson/ Prentice Hall, 1973. 6th ed. published in 2006.
  • Goldstein, Nathan. Figure Drawing:
  • The Structure, Anatomy, and Expressive Design of Human Form. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1999.
  • Hess, Thomas. Abstract Painting: Background and American Phase. New Yo rk: Viking Press, 1951.
  • Hill, Edward. The Language of Drawing. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1966.
  • Kampf, Avram. Jewish Experience in the Art of the Twentieth Century. Exh. cat. New York: Jewish Museum, 1975.
  • Kootz, Samuel. New Frontiers in American Painting. New York: Hastings House, 1943- Reprint , White fish, MT: Literary Licensing LLC, 2012.
  • Little, Carl. Paintings of Maine. Camden, ME: Down East Books, 2006.
  • Mendelowitz, Daniel, and Duane A. Wakenham. Mendelowitz’s Guide to Drawing. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1982.
  • Pousette-Dart, Nathaniel. American Painting Today. New York: Hastings House Publishers, 1956. Reprint , White fish, MT: Literary Licensing LLC, 2011.
  • Rodman, Selden. The Eye of Man: Form and Content in Western Painting. New York : Devin-Adair, 1955.
  • Soby,James Thrall . Contemporary Painters. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1948.
  • Stebbins, Theodore. American Master Drawings and Watercolors: A History of Works on Paper from Colonial Times to the Present. New York: Harper & Row, 1976.
  • Thompson, Dorothy Abbott. Hyman Bloom: The Spirits of Hyman Bloom: The Sources of His Imagery. Exh. cat. New York: Chameleon Books, in association with the Fuller Museum of Art, 1996.
  • Wight, Frederick S. Hyman Bloom. Exh. cat. Boston: Institute of Contemporary Art, 1954.
  • Wilmerding, John. American Art in the Princeton University Art Museum, Volume I: Drawings and Watercolors. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Art Museum, 2004.
  • Wolff, Theodore F. The Many Masks of Modern Art. Boston: Christian Science Monitor, 1989.

Articles

  • Ablow, Joseph . “Hyman Bloom and the Uses of the Past.” New Boston Review, Spring 1976, 9-10.
  • Chaet, Bernard. “Drawing Techniques: Interview with Hyman Bloom.” Arts, March 1958, 66-67.
  • Chaet, Bernard. “The Boston Expressionist School: A Painter’s Recollections of the Forties.” Archives of American Art Journal 20, no. 1 (1980): 25-30.
  • Cotter, Holland. “Metaphor and Representation. Art in America 79, no. 2 (February 1991): 138-41, 161.
  • De Kooning, Elaine. “Hyman Bloom Paints a Picture.” Art News 48 (January 1950 ): 30-33, 56-57.
  • Duncan, Michael. “Bloom’s Way.” Art in America  91, no. 4 (April 2003): 125-29.
  • Freedberg, Sydney. ” Hyman Bloom: The Career to Date of a Major Modern Painter.” Perspectives 6 (Winter 1954): 45- 54.
  • Goodrich, Lloyd. “American Painting and Sculpture, 1930-1959: The Moscow Exhibition.” College Art journal 18, no. 4 (Summer 1959): 288-301.
  • Kaufmann, Edgar, Jr. “Hyman Bloom .” Art in America 34, no. 3 (July 1946): 121-27.
  • Kramer, Hilton. “Bloom and Levine: The Hazards of Modern Painting. Two Jewish Artists from Boston .” Commentary 19, no. 6 (June 1955): 583-87. “Mass Debut.” Time, February 2, 1942.
  • O’Doherty, Brian. “Hyman Bloom.” Art in America 49, no. 3 (1961): 45-17.
  • “The Pessimistic View.” Time, 14 March 1949.
  • Peterson, Joan. “Tradition and Today in Boston. “Art in America 48, no. 1 (Spring 1960 ): 132, 134.
  • Raynor, Vivien, and Sidney Tillman . “Jack Levine, Hyman Bloom.” Arts Magazine, November 1962, 42.
  • Swetzoff, Hyman . “Hyman Bloom: The Attainment of a State of Being.” Berkeley: A Journal of Modern Culture, inaugural issue, 1948.
  • Swetzoff, Hyman. ” Eight Drawings by Hyman Bloom.” Massachusetts Review 3, no. 3 (Spring 1962): 543-54.
  • Tarlow, Lois. “Alternative Space: Hyman Bloom.” Art New England, March 1983, 14-15.
  • “Two Currents.” Time, 26 April 1954.
  • “Vogue Presents 53 Living American Artists.” Vogue, 1 February 1950. Vogue, 1 February 1950.
  • “What’s in Fashion.” Time, 12 June 1950.

Dissertations and Theses

  • Athens, Niccolo Davis. “The Music of Alan Hovhaness.” PhD diss., Cornell University, 2016 (ProQuest Number: 10183794)
  • Bookbinder, Judith A. “Figurative Expressionism in Boston and Its Germanic Cultural Affinities: An Alternative Modernist Discourse on Art and Identity.” PhD diss., Boston University, 1998 (UMI Number: 9823222).
  • Sadur, Sammie Schenker. “The Jewish Themes in the Modern Paintings of Jack Levine and Hyman Bloom: A Comparison, Contrast, and Exploration .” MA thesis, Tulane University, 1978.
  • Tonelli, Edith Ann . “The Massachusetts Federal Art Project: A Case Study in Government Support for Art.” PhD diss., Boston University, 1981.

Films

  • Brisk, Angelica, dir. Hyman Bloom: The Beauty of All Things. 2009; Watertown, MA: Documentary Educational Resources, 2010. DVD, 57 min.
  • Swetzoff, Martha, dir. Theme: Murder. Newburgh, NY: New Day Films, 1998. DVD, 54 min.
  • Yourgrau, Tug, dir.  A Conflict of Visions: Modern Art in Boston. WGBH-TV, Boston, MA. Broadcast April 1987-

 

Unpublished Material

The Stella Bloom Trust

Manuscripts
    • Barbara Novak, “The Work of Hyman Bloom,” Harvard University, October 1952
    • Dorothy Thompson, extended working manuscript for The Spirits of Hyman Bloom: The Sources of His Imagery, 1996
    • Correspondence of Hyman Bloom, 1941-2009
Audio-Visual Material
    • Hyman Bloom, interview by Brian Q. Silver, ca.2005
    • David Sutherland, raw footage of Hyman Bloom, recorded in 1989

The Estate of Sally Kennedy Davis

    • Artist and Museum Correspondence

Angélica Brisk

    • personal records Approximately twenty hours of raw video footage from The Beauty of All Things