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An example of work by Ron Blumberg
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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
| Ron Blumberg is remembered as a painter of a wide variety of subject and styles and teacher active in Houston and Dallas in the mid-1930s and in New York and California respectively early and later in his career.
His painting style varied during his career and ranged through impressionism, post impressionism, surrealism, futurism, expressionism to pure abstraction. During what is termed his "Psychological Period" (1948 to 1952, his painting was highly abstract and incorporated elements of Cubism. Among his subjects are portraits, figures including nudes, interiors, beach, circus and city street scenes, still lifes
Ron Blumberg was born and raised in Reading, Pennsylvania, and attended the National Academy of Design, the Art Students League of New York and the Academie de la Grande Chaumiere in Paris.
In 1937 after spending time in Houston and Dallas, he moved to New York City and in the 1950's he lived in Los Angeles.
Blumberg's affiliations included the California Watercolor Society, Los Angeles Art Association, and the Society of Independent Artists. Exhibitions included Texas Centennial Exposition, Dallas; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (1936 one-man); Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia; Art Institute of Chicago; Annual Exhibition of the Society of Independent Artists; California Watercolor Society, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Source:
John and Deborah Powers, "Texas Painters, Sculptors, and Graphic Artists"
Gary Stanley, ArtSanDiego Gallery |
Biography from ArtSanDiego:
| The following biography is submitted by Gary Stanley / ArtSanDiego:
Ron Blumberg was born in Reading, Pennsylvania in 1908. He studied at the National Academy of Design, the Art Students League in New York, and the Academie de la Grande Chaumiere in Paris, France.
He painted extensively and exhibited, in his early years, in New York. In his latter years he moved to Los Angeles, California.
Blumberg was a Member of the California Watercolor Society and the Los Angeles Art Association in his latter years. He exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Texas Centennial Exhibition in 1936, the California Watercolor Society, the Houston Museum of Fine Art, Dallas Museum of Fine Art, Society of Independent Artists, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Alcala Gallery in La Jolla, California (near San Diego).
His works are in the permanent collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Executive Mansion in Sacramento, California, and the Barton Lytton Collection in Los Angeles. Mr. Blumberg spent his latter years as the Cultural Chairman of the Westwood Chamber of Commerce and taught art class throughout the L.A. area.
Ron Blumberg died in Los Angeles in early 2002.
Sources include:"Who Was Who in American Art" by Peter Falk
Trigg Ison Fine Art GalleryAlcala GalleryArtSanDiego archives |
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