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Three Fish Heads
1952 · Etching
plate 7 1/16 x 9 1/16" (18 x 23 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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Hyman Bloom
Artist
DrawingExpressionismFiguration
Representation
None documented
9
Institutional Exhibitions
7
Works in Collection
13
Assets Indexed
2
Authority-backed Facts
0
Publications Referenced
90%
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Movements
- • Expressionism
- • Figuration
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Selected Institutional Exhibitions
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A Museum Menagerie
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1975–1976
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XXVth Anniversary Exhibition: Paintings from the Museum Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1954–1955
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Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1950
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American Paintings from the Museum Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1948–1949
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Timeless Aspects of Modern Art
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1948–1949
About
Why this artist matters now
Hyman Bloom was an American painter known for expressionistic canvases that merged figurative abstraction with visceral, often grotesque imagery. Working primarily in oil on canvas from the 1940s onward, his compositions combined Jewish mystical traditions with the formal vocabulary of American abstraction. His densely layered brushwork and treatment of the human form, frequently fragmented or distorted, reflected postwar anxieties and existential concerns. Bloom's work occupied a distinctive position between figuration and abstraction during a period when American modernism was consolidating around either pole.
Source: Moma Bulk 2026 05 04 · Trust score: 92% · Updated 25d ago
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Expressionism
Medium
Drawing
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Museum of Modern Art
New York, US
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Art Institute of Chicago
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