Norman Bluhm
Norman Bluhm
20th century Abstract Expressionist painter
(Chicago, Illinois, 3/28/1921 - 2/3/1999, East Wallingford, Vermont)
Norman Bluhm died suddenly on Feb. 3 of heart failure.
12/5/2006 : Per the website: http://www.normanbluhm.com/:
1921 Born Chicago, Illinois
1936-41 Studied architecture with Mies van der Rohe at Armour Institute of
Technology (later Illiniois Institute of Technology)
1941-45 United States Army Air Force
1945 Returned to architecture studies at IIT
1946 Studied at Accademia de Belle Arte, Florence, Italy
1947-56 Lived in Paris
1947 Studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris
1949 Acted i
1950 Married Claude Souvrain, Paris (divorced 1956)
1956 Returned to New York City
1961 Married Cary Ogle
1962 Son David born
1963 Daughter Nina born
1964-65 Lived in Paris
1965 Returned to New York City
1970-81 Lived in Millbrook, New York
1981-86 Lived in East Hampton, New York
1986 Moved to Vermont
1999 Died at home in East Wallingford, Vermont, on February 3
1 objects
1984
acrylic, pastel and ink on paper
Gift of Cary and David Bluhm to honor Katy Kline
2006.22.a.-.c