RON BLUMBERG (1908-2005)
Born in Reading, Pennsylvania in 1908, Ron Blumberg began his artistic career in New York City, where he was soon accepted into the group of American artists working there during the 1930's which included Milton Avery, Raphael Soyer and Max Weber. The New York Period paintings from this period demonstrate Blumberg's masterful ability for recording the urban scene in his own style, reflecting a blend of the innovative art techniques of the day with the artistic values of the realist tradition. Portraits from Blumberg's earlier Paris and New Orleans years brilliantly reveal the artist's skillful mastery of the art of portraiture and his sensitive and refined approach to the genre. Blumberg's work has been the subject of numerous museum and gallery exhibitions and is presently included in the collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Hirschorn Museum in Washington D.C., and the California State Executive Mansion in Sacramento.
43rd Street
Oil on canvas 24 x 30 inches
Date: 1940
Signed LR "Ron"
EDUCATION:
National Academy of Design, New York City
Art Students League, New York City, 1930
Academie de La Grande Chaumiere, Paris, 1930-31
MUSEUM & GALLERY EXHIBITIONS (Selected):
Wetzel Art Gallery, Tulsa, 1932
Delgado Museum, New Orleans, 1933
Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, 1935
Houston Museum of Art, 1936
Pennsylvania Academy of Art, 1936
Art Institute of Chicago, 1937
ACA Gallery, New York, 1937
MacBeth Gallery, New York, 1937
Art USA, New York, 1937
Tucson Museum, 1955
Denver Art Museum, 1957
Los Angeles County Museum, 1958
Japanese Cultural Center, Tokyo, 1958
San Diego Museum, 1962
H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, 1967
Erma Frye Museum, Seattle, 1969
Armory Show, New York, 1990
COLLECTIONS (Selected):
Joseph Hirschorn Museum, Washington, DC
Executive Mansion, State of California, Sacramento
Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles
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