"Standing Male Nude, Arms Behind, Looking Down" by Hyman Bloom, Latvian-Amer., (1913-2009) Featured A student of W

A student of W

His formidable gifts as a prolific painter and printmaker are long overdue for scholarly re-evaluation in America

with pencil pentimenti

Color lithograph

"Standing Male Nude, Arms Behind, Looking Down" by Hyman Bloom, Latvian-Amer., (1913-2009) Featured A student of WPencil Drawing, ca. 1930, on a 13 3 4 x 10 sheet of cream wove paper watermarked WARDS BOSTON BOND, signed with initials lower left, creases to top left margin corner. Early in their teens both Hyman Bloom and his friend Jack Levine studied with Harold Zimmerman at the West End Community Center, Boston. Zimmerman taught the two to draw exclusively from memory and imagination. Focused attention on fleeting direct observation and rigorous study of the