Oral history interview with Peter Blume
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 10 sound cassettes. Reformatted in 2010 as 20 digital wav files. Duration is 14 hr., 24 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Blume, Peter, 1906-1992
label: Interviewer
content: Brown, Robert F.
topic: label: Occupation
content: Painters -- Connecticut -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Art, American
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: These interviews are part of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and others.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Blume, Peter, 1906-1992
label: Interviewer
content: Brown, Robert F.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Peter Blume (1906-1992) was a painter from Sherman, Connecticut.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 195 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1983 August 16-1984 May 23
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.blume83
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview with Peter Blume conducted 1983 August 16-1984 May 23, by Robert F. Brown, for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Blume discusses his training with the Soyer brothers; his precociously early exhibitions with Charles Daniel; Daniel's assistant, Alanson Hartpence; Alfred Stieglitz, Malcolm Cowley, and various figures of the bohemian art crowd of Greenwich Village in the 1920s; increasing compositional complexity and use of intense colors in the late 1920s; his working methods; renown brought by first prize (1934) in Carnegie International for the "South of Scranton"; patronage of Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr.; his Guggenheim fellowship to Italy and germination of "The Eternal City" (1934-7), and its purchase in early 1940s by the Museum of Modern Art; purchases of his work by the Whitney and the Metropolitan museums; World War II army paintings; Post-World War II paintings, in particular, "The Rock" (1948), "Passage to Etna" (1956), "Tasso's Oak" (1960), and a series on the seasons (1964-1983); and his preparatory studies.