Study for The Rock
<p>The Russian-born artist Peter Blume employed the Renaissance technique of making drawings and multiple small-scale paintings in preparation for his large-scale, finished compositions. This drawing, given to the museum by the artist in the 1960s, is one of many studies for the Art Institute’s painting <em>The Rock</em> (1956.338). Taken as a group, these studies demonstrate the artist’s working method and show the progression of The Rock from an idea to the finished painting.</p>
Catalogue
- Year
- 1943
- Medium
- Oil paint, with traces of graphite, on laminated wood pulp board, hinged to dark green wove paper
- Dimensions
- 10.7 × 12.9 cm (4 1/4 × 5 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
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- Peter Blume
- Year
- 1943
- Medium
- Oil paint, with traces of graphite, on laminated wood pulp board, hinged to dark green wove paper
- Dimensions
- 10.7 × 12.9 cm (4 1/4 × 5 1/8 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1943-083763
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
- Reference
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- Status
- verified