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Hyman Bloom

Hyman Bloom (1913 - 2009) was active/lived in Massachusetts, New Hampshire.  Hyman Bloom is known for Expressionist painting-allegory, religion.

Following is the obituary of the artist, by Michael McNay, published October 12, 2009, online at http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/oct/12/hyman-bloom-obituary.  Courtesy Peter Kostoulakos.

Hyman Bloom, who has died aged 96, was one of the last survivors of the thousands of artists who benefited from the patronage of President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal programme, the federal arts project. The project, one of several to aid the arts, ran from 1935 until 1943, and at its height employed 5,300 artists. Their most famous products were murals in schools, hospitals, sports centres and government offices, but Bloom was included in the easel painting programme. It kept the bailiff from the door.

The federal director of the project, Holger Cahill, was the husband of Dorothy Miller, curator of paintings at the Museum of Modern Art (Moma) in New York. In 1942 Miller was putting together a survey of new American art when Cahill showed her Bloom's paintings. She incl   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 8869 characters.]  Artist bio

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