JEROME BLUM

Journeys into Color

October 25 – November 17, 2001

Jerome Blum (1884-1956)
Still Life with Figures, circa 1925
Oil on board, 32 x 21 1/4 inches
Private collection

Jerome Blum (1884-1956)
The Palm Trees, Cuba, 1918
Oil on canvas, 28 3/4 x 23 5/8 inches
Private collection

Jerome Blum (1884-1956)
Rue Bonaparte, Ajaccio, 1913
Oil on canvas, 18 1/8 x 21 3/4 inches
Private collection

Jerome Blum (1884-1956)
From Our Window, Concarneau, circa 1928
Oil on canvas, 36 3/8 x 28 3/4 inches
Private collection

Press Release

Hollis Taggart Galleries is pleased to present Jerome Blum: Journeys into Color, a collection of brilliantly hued paintings executed by the noted Chicago born Modernist Jerome Blum. Infusing his canvases with a saturated palette of Fauve and Post-Impressionist color, Blum turned the products of his peripatetic wanderings into striking Modernist essays. Cuba, China, and the South Seas, as well as the requisite European tour, most notably to France, introduced him to the work of Gaugin, Matisse, and Cézanne, ultimately encouraging him to incorporate vital new elements into his still life, landscape, and figural depictions.