<p>As Peter Blume struggled with the commission for <em>The Rock</em> (also in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago) his health deteriorated and he traveled to Key West, Florida, during the winter of 1940 to recuperate. Buoy was one of three works he completed upon his return to Pennsylvania. Blume spoke of the buoys he viewed in Florida: <blockquote>They’d put out these bright red balls, and inside of three or four weeks they’d be covered with . . . all sorts of odd growths . . . I watched them stripping this stuff off and getting to the red thing again . . . I saw these balls, great big buoys, as a form of the earth and the laceration down to the red thing as a sort of bleeding world going on.</blockquote></p>
Catalogue
- Year
- 1941
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 40.6 × 45.7 cm (16 × 18 1/8 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- Peter Blume
Artist
Painting
Peter Blume was an American painter and sculptor. His work contained elements of folk art, Precisionism, Parisian Purism, Cubism, and Surrealism.
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Two Sketches of a Nude Woman
1959 · Pen and black ink on white wove paper, tipped onto gray wove paper
Easter Island and Rana Raraku
1954 · Ink on paper on colored paper
The Rock
1944 · Oil on canvas
Study for The Rock
1943 · Charcoal, with stumping, on cream wove paper, tipped onto ivory wove paper
Study for The Rock
1943 · Charcoal, with traces of white gouache, on tan tracing paper
Study for The Rock
1943 · Charcoal, with stumping, on tan tracing paper
Record
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- Peter Blume
- Year
- 1941
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 40.6 × 45.7 cm (16 × 18 1/8 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1941-016359
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified