"Standing Male Nude, Arms Behind, Looking Down" by Hyman Bloom, Latvian-Amer., (1913-2009) Featured His formidable gifts as a

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

on thick stiff cream Murillo wove paper

with pencil pentimenti

is an understatement

The stars for instance are barely discernable but add so much to the charm of this uncommon subject

"Standing Male Nude, Arms Behind, Looking Down" by Hyman Bloom, Latvian-Amer., (1913-2009) Featured His formidable gifts as aPencil 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