Hyman Bloom
(1913 – 2009) combined the physical and the spiritual on canvas. Committed to figurative painting at a defining moment of American art when abstraction was on the rise, Bloom employed thick paint in jewel-like tones to make richly expressive works that challenge our concepts of beauty and the transcendent and spiritual power of art. The MFA, Boston show includes 70 paintings and drawings from public and private collections, including works from MoMA and the Whitney.