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Cartoon for "Recollection of the Flood"
1968 · Charcoal on paper
41 3/8 × 46 7/8 in. (105.1 × 119.1 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Peter Blume
1906
PaintingExpressionismSurrealismCubism
Representation
None documented
46
Institutional Exhibitions
118
Works in Collection
146
Assets Indexed
5
Authority-backed Facts
0
Publications Referenced
90%
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Movements
- • Expressionism
- • Surrealism
- • Cubism
- • Realism
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Selected Institutional Exhibitions
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Recent Acquisitions: Drawings
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1981
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Art of the Twenties
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1979–1980
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Between World Wars: Drawing in Europe and America
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1976
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In the Twenties
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1975
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Portraits
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1973–1974
About
Why this artist matters now
Peter Blume was an American painter and sculptor whose work synthesized folk art, Precisionism, and Surrealism into densely layered, meticulously rendered compositions. His paintings combined the sharp-focus realism and geometric order of Precisionism with unexpected dreamlike elements and spatial distortions drawn from Surrealist practice. Working across the twentieth century, Blume developed a distinctive visual language that resisted easy categorization, moving fluidly between abstraction and representation while maintaining an underlying commitment to craft and formal precision.
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Expressionism
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Painting
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Art Institute of Chicago
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Museum of Modern Art
New York, US
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Whitney Museum of American Art
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