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Steven<br />
<strong>Trefonides</strong>:<br />
Secrets
Steven <strong>Trefonides</strong>:<br />
Secrets<br />
A <strong>Catalogue</strong> to accompany an exhibition<br />
held at the<br />
Tides Institute & Museum of Art<br />
Eastport, Maine<br />
August 18 - September 18<br />
Curated by: Martha Lewis<br />
Cover: Two Girls in Tree, Framed charcoal drawing, 2000
“Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life . . . Life holds the mirror up to<br />
Art, and either reproduces some strange type imagined by a painter or sculptor, or<br />
realises in fact what has been dreamed in fiction. . . . For what is Nature? Nature<br />
is no great mother who has borne us. She is our creation. It is in our brain that she<br />
quickens to life. Things are because we see them, and what we see, and how we see<br />
it, depends on the Arts that have influenced us. . . . At present, people see fogs, not<br />
because there are fogs, but because poets and painters have taught them the mysterious<br />
loveliness of such effects. There may have been fogs for centuries in London. I<br />
dare say there were. But no one saw them, and so we do not know anything about<br />
them. They did not exist till Art had invented them. Now, it must be admitted,<br />
fogs are carried to excess. They have become the mere mannerism of a clique, and<br />
the exaggerated realism of their method gives dull people bronchitis. Where the<br />
cultured catch an effect, the uncultured catch cold. “<br />
~Oscar Wilde, ‘The Decay of Lying: An Observation’, 1889 1<br />
I have a strong visual memory from sometime<br />
in the 70’s, of standing and looking at the objects propped on a mantelpiece in<br />
the <strong>Trefonides</strong>’ South End house. The long white marble mantle had a couple of<br />
vintage photographs resting on it, portraits. Old, detailed images of men in strange<br />
heavy clothes obviously a part of another world and time. One in particular<br />
riveted me: his craggy gaunt face, the hooded eyes. Every detail was there-craters<br />
and pocks and hairs, in forensic detail. It was so intimate, as if he were a neighbor<br />
or visitor, who could stop by for at any moment.<br />
I am not sure how or where Steve got this photograph of Abraham Lincoln, but<br />
this was my first experience of the historic past as a living reality. Cozied up to<br />
this startling image was a series of ordinary objects, small clutter: playing cards,<br />
toothpicks, a clock or maybe candle and some beautiful delicate things from India,<br />
various bits from a multitude of times and places all as concrete as myself.<br />
Is this memory accurate or have I embroidered on it over time, altering it with each<br />
re-visitation into a fiction I truly believe?<br />
Probably both.<br />
This visual syncretism, an eclectic merging of past with the now, comes back to me as I sit<br />
here writing this essay on <strong>Trefonides</strong>’ work,<br />
as an emblematic image. It seems poignant<br />
when considering his complex and detailed<br />
works presented here in this show.<br />
The mantle for me acts like a maquette of the<br />
dynamic which takes place in his images:<br />
dramas which include layered presences,<br />
figures from old photographs, real and<br />
imagined, shuffling among ordinary things in<br />
places that blend and shift their<br />
references. The eroding strata of meanings,<br />
colors and surfaces merge into unique wholes<br />
that defy explanation.<br />
Certain words come to mind again and again<br />
when looking over Steven <strong>Trefonides</strong>’s oeuvre:<br />
rich, detailed, sensual, intricate, loaded.<br />
Essayist William<br />
Corbett writes of his work:<br />
“At times I thought of him as<br />
Love in the Bathroom<br />
a conjurer…shifting weather often<br />
surrounds, like smoke, the images that Framed woodcut print | 29” H x 32 7/8” W | 1968<br />
form in a <strong>Trefonides</strong>. His pictures have<br />
a dream-like clarity and the muzziness,<br />
the unconscious we are in when we are dreaming. That is a way of saying that the quality of<br />
<strong>Trefonides</strong>’s imagination, as sensuous and peculiar as one could ask for, is always on view in<br />
his work.” 1<br />
1 Wilde, Oscar. The Decay of Lying. 1891.<br />
as published in his book Intentions<br />
1 Corbett, William. “Creiger-Dane Gallery Show.” Artmedia Magazine.
“Timelessness” was once thought to be an essential ingredient to great art. 1 Like the<br />
eternal cycles on a Greek vase, our collective being and recursive dramas were what<br />
counted. Archetypes, Truth with a capitalized “T,” Universal dramas, religious and<br />
secular, were everything; they drove the Renaissance, neoclassicism, the academy with<br />
a capitalized “A.” Then, around the 19th<br />
century, perception swung 360 degrees the<br />
other way: to be interesting, one had to evoke<br />
one’s era, location, culture, its discontents and<br />
social morays. One was nothing as an artist<br />
who did not reflect their time with a gimlet<br />
eye. The particular became essential. Details of<br />
technology, dress, and behavior: the Flaneur in<br />
the city became the ideal 2 for the images artists<br />
produced for their audiences.<br />
Both approaches traffic in the subtext of sex<br />
and mortality and Steven <strong>Trefonides</strong> puts it all<br />
in there: archetypes, real people, a pell-mell of<br />
images and scenes that have attracted him, in<br />
unsettling settings. Like real dreams or<br />
fairytales, there is often a menace below the<br />
surface, people cluster in groups but stay alone,<br />
and eye each other jealously. These are liminal<br />
spaces, and Something is always about to<br />
happen.<br />
Embrace<br />
Framed oil on paper | 39 1/8” H x 31 1/2”<br />
W | 1987<br />
Steven <strong>Trefonides</strong> was one of my first examples of a professional artist but I didn’t<br />
have context, didn’t know about what the other artists were doing-the Boston<br />
Expressionists, for example-or why that work would be different from the art coming<br />
out of New York in the 60’s and 70’s, where Abstract Expressionism morphed into<br />
Minimalism and Pop, away from ”post-war figuration”. 3 Now his nuanced, moody<br />
dramas seem to make sense with the whole zeitgeist of the Boston art scene, with its<br />
celebration of personal narrative and its resistance to minimalism.<br />
Boston was a magnet to an international, intellectual crowd, with a thriving art scene<br />
of galleries, artists, schools and museums. The artists were eclectic and loosely knit<br />
– a band of individuals, collective mainly in the sense that they were all somewhat<br />
reclusive individualists, and that they were all committed and intent on their personal<br />
vision.<br />
<strong>Trefonides</strong>’ own relationships with various artists- Hyman Bloom, Nina<br />
Bohlen, David Aronson, answer certain questions: these sets of interests<br />
were not born out of a vacuum, yet <strong>Trefonides</strong>’ work has a unique humor<br />
and psychological drama that is all his own. He was younger than the<br />
core of the Boston Expressionists, and is generally considered to be from<br />
the second generation of BE artists, mostly graduates from the Boston<br />
Museum School under the influence of teacher Karl Zerbe. But they all<br />
did know each other, spend time together, and there is a synergy: that’s<br />
important to the story too: it was this community which drifted up north<br />
and congregated in the cool of Lubec. It’s central, in fact, to the story of<br />
how the <strong>Trefonides</strong> family came to be in Lubec for the summers, and<br />
how, in turn, Lubec came to be important to his work; the landscapes and<br />
spaces working their way into his intricate dramas.<br />
It was Nina 1 that had brought Hyman 2 to Lubec, and then later Steve<br />
and Phyllis, and others. The first time, they stayed at Nina’s while she was<br />
away. The next year, they rented a place for themselves and Steve drew<br />
with charcoal on a large sheet of paper pinned to the dining room wall.<br />
“Nude in Hammock” was his first large work made in Lubec.<br />
Nude in Hammock<br />
Framed charcoal drawing | 48” W x 48” H | 1966<br />
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1 Keats, John. “Ode on a Grecian Urn.” In The Poetical Works of John Keats. 1884.<br />
2 Baudelaire, Charles. The Painter of Modern Life. 1863.<br />
3 This term usually refers to Art in Britain after the war- but also applies to<br />
American artists like Ben Shahn, Phillip Guston, The Ashcan School, and others.<br />
1 “Nina Bohlen - Artist.” Nina Bohlen. Accessed July 2016. http://<br />
ninabohlenart.com/.<br />
2 “Hyman Bloom.” Hyman Bloom. Accessed July 2016. http://www.<br />
hymanbloom.com/.
Something about the place spoke to them both, and in 1968 when he won<br />
the Blanche Colman Prize for Painting they took the money and got a<br />
place of their own. Houses were plentiful and cheap, plus Phyllis was<br />
gifted: She had always been able to find the most wonderful housesbargains<br />
with remarkable features. Once they got the white house with its<br />
yard and old tree they set up there for every summer from then until now,<br />
packing children and supplies into a blue VW bus, making the journey<br />
from the South End and the sweat of urban Boston summers to the far<br />
end of Maine.<br />
In the 1960s, Lubec began to have a summer art scene with a flow of city<br />
visitors and locals cooking out on the beaches, sharing food and life. Lois<br />
and Ryerson Johnson 1 instigated parties, and there were tides of visiting<br />
artists. It made sense that many of them became seasonal migrants, prices<br />
were low, space was available. Steven <strong>Trefonides</strong>, Hyman Bloom and Nina<br />
Bohlen, Paul Caponigro, Marie Cosindas, Harold Tovish, Kahlil George<br />
Gibran, Marianna Pineda, Iso Papo, and many others all came through,<br />
spending time and working. For this exhibit we have featured a selection of<br />
their output on the second floor gallery: Bohlen’s luminous mono-printed<br />
trees, Bloom’s tumultuous piles of rubble, Caponigro’s<br />
cathedral-like forests. We have works owned by <strong>Trefonides</strong> by Bloom and<br />
Bohlen which echo his own sensibilities. There is something special about<br />
seeing works artists give each other, works they surround themselves with.<br />
These are plein-air observations which sometimes make their way into his<br />
studio work, and we also have some examples of the<br />
stereopticon slides and early photographs in his collection that so fascinate<br />
him; frozen, often funny, moments from the past that echo throughout<br />
his oeuvre. This is being paired with the Tides Institute’s own collection of<br />
such images- which feature scenes of Cobscook Bay, Machias, Eastport,<br />
Lubec. All of this is to give a more in depth-perhaps secret-glimpse into<br />
the role time, place and circumstance play in the creative life of the artist.<br />
End of The World<br />
Unframed ink on paper | 14” W x 11” H | 1962<br />
Two Girls in Tree<br />
Framed charcoal drawing | 36 1/3” W x 28 3/4” H | 2000<br />
1 Lois Johnson, an illustrator, and her husband, pulp-fiction author Ryerson,<br />
were famous for their parties
Despite the groups’ scorn for the stereotypic “Maine Landscape” genre, the<br />
environment and the culture of the place seeped into their work as if by osmosis:<br />
tangled woods, coastlines, filtered dappled light all feature. Steve may not be a<br />
landscape painter, and rocky shores and mossy forests are not his subject matter,<br />
but the years of drawing here, living here, sleeping here, dreaming here, the long<br />
summers spent working outside and in the studio have meant that the place and<br />
its particularities permeate his work, appearing as naturally as the sly and<br />
sophisticated people who inhabit his images.<br />
Lubec Wall<br />
Matted unframed ink drawing over<br />
black chalk | 23 3/4” W x 18 1/2” H<br />
| 1970<br />
Fact and fiction meld, characters<br />
reappear-women in trees, card<br />
players, men fighting, poets and<br />
their admirers-again and again<br />
mixing and remixing like the flow<br />
of guests at a cocktail party. The<br />
spaces they inhabit are familiar and<br />
fraught-dark antique looking<br />
bathrooms, fields at sunset or<br />
dawn, tangled woodlands, rocky<br />
outcroppings near ponds. There is<br />
a combination of innocence and<br />
experience-operators and ingénues<br />
in his troupe of players. As art critic<br />
Sebastian Smee put it in his<br />
Introduction to <strong>Trefonides</strong>’ 2012<br />
exhibit Through the Looking Glass:<br />
“his forms of pictorial dreaming<br />
have a frictionless quality, a “<br />
perhaps this, but why not that?”<br />
aspect, that keeps him-and us-on our<br />
toes.” 1<br />
Firefly Green<br />
Framed pastel on paper | 32” H x 26” W | 1996<br />
His sensibility is grounded in turn-of-the-century French avante garde<br />
painting and in the history of photography. The early uses of photography as a<br />
means for telling of jokes 2 or as erotica, or as a form of travel-all permeate the<br />
worlds he creates within his images.““ we used to go rummaging through the<br />
junkshops at the North station”,…” I’ll never forget my excitement at first<br />
coming across a stack of stereopticon slides of Victorian Egypt. Some of these<br />
images have haunted me ever since.”” 3<br />
Quoddy Head<br />
Unframed black ink on paper | 14” W x 11” H | 1973<br />
1 Smee, Sebastian. “Smee Introduction to Through the Looking Glass . Botolph<br />
Club Catalog, 2012.<br />
2 See: L’Arroseur Arrosé. Directed by Louis Lumière and Auguste Lumière.<br />
Performed by Benoît Duval and François Clerc. France, June 10, 1895. Film.<br />
3 Taylor, Robert. “The Haunting of Steven <strong>Trefonides</strong>.” Boston Globe, March 25,<br />
1980.
As an artist, he moves masterfully, flexibly, between drawing, painting,<br />
printmaking and pastel. Strains of Vuillard, Degas, Watteau, Bonnard and<br />
Goya filter in and out. The colors in <strong>Trefonides</strong> works are pungent and<br />
intense, with rich dark masses and layers, and surprising citrusy punches.<br />
He was drawn to, in the words of Maria Morris Hambourg, "The haunting<br />
power of photographs to commingle past and present, to suspend the world<br />
and the artist's experience of it in unique distillations.” 1<br />
Like the impressionists before him, he uses photography with its<br />
unpredictable framing and blurs to inform his compositions, unlike the<br />
impressionists, he uses photography as an independent art-form going back<br />
and forth between media, without complex.<br />
“Indeed, you can feel the influence of photography in his love for strange<br />
body postures and in his resistance to conventional compositions.<br />
<strong>Trefonides</strong> embraces the arbitrariness of the camera’s framing, so that, for<br />
instance, two figures will overlap, even while a significant portion of the<br />
picture remains empty.” 2<br />
For Secrets, we wanted to get a closer look at the way he works and reworks<br />
his cast of players and imagery, honing his subjects, recontextualizing them,<br />
moving with them around over time. They might dress differently but we<br />
get to know them-they reappear in slightly altered guises. <strong>Trefonides</strong> has<br />
said that the role of costumes in his work: “partly that comes from the old<br />
photographs; but partly, too from my interest in social roles. The<br />
characters who are dressing up in these visual dramas are obviously<br />
assuming a role….” 1 They are detailed and ambiguous, drawing the viewer<br />
in-to spend time in what is clearly an existential drama, a theater of being.<br />
He “takes on the manner of a diviner, picking up vibrations, subterranean<br />
whispers.” 2 “ The Spell,” a work in which those vibrations and whispers are<br />
particularly disturbing and palpable, gets shown here in three versions using<br />
three very different media, offering a change to really look at what makes<br />
the works tick and examine where their unique power comes from.<br />
Both photography and painting are a form of observation, both capture our<br />
shadowy realities, and reveal what we wish to mask, our lurking fragilities,<br />
anxieties, neuroses and desires. What are secrets and why do we create<br />
them, guard them, generate more? We are taught not to lie, to be<br />
apparently transparent and up front and yet none of us really are or even<br />
can be.<br />
Mayerling<br />
Framed woodcut print | 29” H x 32 7/8” W | 1966<br />
The Spell<br />
Unframed oil on canvas | 48” W x 50.5” H | 1985<br />
1 Maria Morris Hambourg is Curator at the Department of Photographs,<br />
The Metropolitan Museum of Art New York. This text is from the exhibition catalog: The Waking<br />
Dream: Photography’s First Century. Selections from the Gilman Paper Company Collection by<br />
Maria Morris Hambourg, Pierre Apraxine, Malcolm Daniel, Jeff L. Rosenheim, and Virginia Heckert<br />
(1993) The title comes from Keats: Ode to a Nightingale (also the carter family song: Winding<br />
Stream).<br />
2 Smee, Sebastian. “The Man Who Wouldn’t Stop Painting.” Boston Globe, April 26, 2009.<br />
Accessed July 2016. http://archive.boston.com/ae/theater_arts/articles/2009/04/26/the_man_who_<br />
wouldnt_stop_painting/.<br />
1 Taylor, Robert. “The Haunting of Steven <strong>Trefonides</strong>.” Boston Globe,<br />
March 25, 1980.<br />
2 Smee, Sebastian. “The Man Who Wouldn’t Stop Painting.” Boston<br />
Globe, April 26, 2009. Accessed July 2016. http://archive.boston.com/ae/<br />
theater_arts/articles/2009/04/26/the_man_who_wouldnt_stop_painting/.
For the series of works involving women in trees we see them iterated in a vast<br />
range of moods, implications and materials: pencil, ink, oil paint, print. “Nude in<br />
Hammock” from 1966 reverberates through 1973’s The Nest, 1993’s In the Forest<br />
and 2001’s Two Women in The Trees.<br />
“Often described as a romantic painter, he nevertheless has a streak of mischief,<br />
and is always seeing the comedy in romance. He describes the figures in one<br />
painting as having "desires percolating around them." Another drawing, from the<br />
1960s, shows four naked women in a vigorously drawn Maine landscape,<br />
<strong>Trefonides</strong>'s saucy answer to the conventional New England genre of windswept<br />
coastal landscapes. "Four women on the rocks," he says wryly, after moving it into<br />
view: "It's like a drink."” 1<br />
Two Women in The Trees<br />
Oil on canvas | 20” H x 22 3/4” W | 2001<br />
Two Women on Swing<br />
need info | |<br />
1 Smee, Sebastian. “The Man Who Wouldn’t Stop Painting.” Boston Globe, April<br />
26, 2009. Accessed July 2016. http://archive.boston.com/ae/theater_arts/articles/2009/04/26/the_man_who_wouldnt_stop_painting/.
His process is introverted-as a studio artist works alone and needs to enjoy that<br />
solitude-but he has always been generous artist as well. Steven <strong>Trefonides</strong> was one<br />
of my first examples of a professional artist, and as a child it seemed<br />
perfectly normal that he should have his large Newberry street studio, that black<br />
and white photography of a spare and candid nature would also go hand in hand<br />
with energetic and colorful paintings, drawings and prints, that, of course, one<br />
traded artworks for exotic items like canopy beds and went to India to take<br />
photographs, and that one’s practice above all meant working very, very hard.<br />
Notebooks, sketchbooks, and reams of paper got filled with drawings, and when<br />
that wasn’t happening, and pictures weren’t being taken with cameras, then there<br />
were other’s images to be looked at. Art books with pages marked everywhere,<br />
stereopticon slides and relics from the photographic past to be perused,<br />
consumed, enjoyed. Visual messages were everywhere.<br />
One theme may have began years ago, a thread left dangling might be picked up<br />
again years later, re-worked into a new set of meanings. This is the privilege of<br />
time and of mastery-repetition yields richness and understanding that cannot be<br />
reproduced without this process of hard labor. It’s earned. “For many people, there<br />
is nothing quite so moving or inspiring as the sight of youthful talent blazing<br />
away with total commitment,” writes Smee, “But in fact, there is something more<br />
moving and, in its way, more impressive. It's the sight of creative talent at the<br />
other end of life. The painter or performer who has dedicated a whole life to his<br />
or her calling; the artist who has stamina, who has gone on creating, who, despite<br />
setbacks, has never given up, and keeps on finding more to discover, more to<br />
express. Steven <strong>Trefonides</strong> isn't done yet.” 1<br />
Nor should he be: At age 90, <strong>Trefonides</strong> is still in his studio, still drawing, still<br />
avidly reading, consuming the images in books, still looking, still making, because<br />
art is life. He and Phyllis still make the drive 50 years later, breaking up the trip,<br />
going more slowly, this time with dogs in tow instead of children, the now adult<br />
children popping through with their own offspring and spouses, to run in the yard<br />
and poke around the rocky beaches, the farmers market, Quoddy Head.<br />
The real secret that <strong>Trefonides</strong> shows us, performs by turning out the pockets of<br />
his mindscapes for us again and again, is this: his realities are now informing the<br />
landscapes and places that surround us. Maine’s woods and horizons echo a<br />
<strong>Trefonides</strong>-or start to look very much like a Bohlen, a Caponigro, a Bloom.<br />
Martha Willette Lewis,<br />
Resident Curator, The Institute Library, New Haven CT.<br />
June, 2016<br />
The Rainbow<br />
Framed pastel on paper| 33 1/4” W x 29 1/2” H | 1985<br />
As a young artist, he offered me studio visits, advice, support and help over the<br />
years, and his model of work ethic and intellectual curiosity have stuck with me.<br />
He always has been wonderful at treating other artists-including art students<br />
and those just starting out-with respect and interest. One of the most impressive<br />
aspects of a visit to <strong>Trefonides</strong>’s studio is the commitment to drawing-he has<br />
chests full of works on paper, years of notebooks, years of inky scrawled lines,<br />
of gestures and movement. His drawing hand is relaxed and assured with some<br />
areas being intensely detailed and others left as open-ended lines dissipating into<br />
the light of the page.<br />
1 Smee, Sebastian. “The Man Who Wouldn’t Stop Painting.” Boston Globe, April<br />
26, 2009. Accessed July 2016. http://archive.boston.com/ae/theater_arts/articles/2009/04/26/the_man_who_wouldnt_stop_painting/.
Steven <strong>Trefonides</strong>: Timeline<br />
Sunrise<br />
Pastel on paper | 24 W x 18 H | 1999<br />
1926 Born New Bedford<br />
Attended The Swain School of Design, New Bedford<br />
1944-1945 Air Force WW2<br />
Attended Vesper George School of Art 1924-1983<br />
1950-1954 G.I. Bill painting major at the Boston Museum School, met<br />
Hyman Bloom there<br />
1951 William Maynard, Steven <strong>Trefonides</strong> – July 15, Watercolors<br />
The Decordova Museum of Art, MA.<br />
1954 Louis comfort Tiffany Grant to travel: Italy, France, Spain, Greece<br />
1954- 1955 Photography Show – 5 Photographers -Steven <strong>Trefonides</strong>, John Brook,<br />
Henry B. Kane, Donald Robinson, Phokian Karas,<br />
Decordova Museum, MA.<br />
Retrospective exhibit at Fitchburg Museum<br />
Taught at Vesper George for 3 years<br />
1956 Photographs by Stephen <strong>Trefonides</strong>, Decordova Museum, MA.<br />
1958 Summer grand prize for painting at Portland (Maine) art festival<br />
1959 Fulbright to India<br />
1968 Blanche Colman award-bought Lubec house with prize money<br />
1968 Retrospective exhibit at Brockton Museum<br />
1968 Exhibit at Fuller Art Museum (now the Fuller Craft museum)<br />
1969 Produced book, India, a collection of photographs, Grossman-Viking press<br />
1969-1975 Taught art at UMass Boston<br />
1971 Retrospective exhibit at University of Storrs CT<br />
1978 Book From Shtetl To Suburbia: The Family In Jewish Literary<br />
Imagination written by Sol Gittleman, drawings by Steven <strong>Trefonides</strong><br />
1980 Artist of the Year St. Botolph Club, Boston, MA.<br />
1984 Fellow, The Camargo Foundation, Cassis, France<br />
1986 Prints and drawings exhibit at Boston Public Library<br />
1988 Exhibit, Alfred J. Walker gallery, Newberry Street<br />
1989 Book: Photographs: Beacon Hill, Boston 1989 By Steven <strong>Trefonides</strong><br />
2012 Retrospective Through the Looking Glass, St. Botolph Club, Boston, Ma.<br />
2016 Retrospective Steven <strong>Trefonides</strong>: Secrets at The Tides Institute & Museum,<br />
Eastport, Maine<br />
Major collections for painting and photographic works include:<br />
MFA Boston, MET NY, MoMa NY, Dartmouth College, Wadsworth Athenaeum, CT.,<br />
The New Britain Museum, CT., The Decordova Museum, Brandeis University, MA.,<br />
Chase Manhattan Bank, NY.
Steven <strong>Trefonides</strong>: Secrets<br />
List of Works in the <strong>Exhibition</strong><br />
Title Medium Year Size<br />
End of the World<br />
Nude in Hammock<br />
Lubec Wall<br />
Beached<br />
Scallop Man<br />
Filleting Haddock<br />
Quoddy Head<br />
The Nest<br />
The Spell<br />
The Spell<br />
The Spell<br />
The Rainbow<br />
Unframed ink on paper<br />
Framed charcoal drawing<br />
Matted unframed ink drawing<br />
Unframed drawing charcoal on<br />
paper<br />
Unframed drawing black ink on<br />
paper<br />
Unframed drawing black ink on<br />
paper<br />
Unframed black ink on paper<br />
Unframed Editioned<br />
Lithograph (more available in<br />
TMA flatfiles)<br />
Gouache and ink on paper<br />
Matted mono-print<br />
Unframed oil on canvas<br />
Framed pastel on paper<br />
1962<br />
1966<br />
1970<br />
1970<br />
1973<br />
1973<br />
1973<br />
1973<br />
1984<br />
1985<br />
1985<br />
1985<br />
11 x 14<br />
48 x 48<br />
23 3/4 x 18 1/2<br />
30 x 22<br />
14 x 11<br />
14 x 11<br />
14 x 11<br />
22 3/4 x 31<br />
14 x 11<br />
11 x 14<br />
48 x 50.5<br />
33 1/4 x 29 1/2<br />
Bibliography<br />
Baudelaire, Charles. The Painter of Modern Life. 1863.<br />
Corbett, William. "Creiger-Dane Gallery Show." Artmedia Magazine.<br />
"Hyman Bloom." Hyman Bloom. Accessed July 2016. http://www.hymanbloom.com/.<br />
Keats, John. "Ode on a Grecian Urn." In The Poetical Works of John<br />
Keats. 1884.<br />
L’Arroseur Arrosé. Directed by Louis Lumière and Auguste Lumière.<br />
Performed by Benoît Duval and François Clerc. France, June 10, 1895.<br />
Film.<br />
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theater_arts/articles/2009/04/26/the_man_who_wouldnt_stop_painting/.<br />
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March 25, 1980.<br />
Embrace<br />
Love in the Bathroom<br />
In The Forest<br />
Framed oil on paper<br />
Framed pastel on paper<br />
Framed charcoal on Paper<br />
1987<br />
1988<br />
1993<br />
39 1/8 x 31 1/2<br />
44 7/8 x 37 1/2<br />
33 x 41<br />
Wilde, Oscar. The Decay of Lying. 1891.<br />
as published in his book Intentions<br />
Hurricane in the Ukraine<br />
Women in The Trees<br />
Framed pencil drawing<br />
Unframed watercolor and<br />
1996<br />
1996<br />
13 3/4 x 12 3/16<br />
14 x 17<br />
colored pencil<br />
Firefly Green<br />
Framed pastel on paper<br />
1996<br />
32 x 26<br />
Mayerling<br />
Framed woodcut print<br />
1998<br />
29 x 32 7/8<br />
Two Girls in Tree<br />
Framed Charcoal drawing<br />
2000<br />
36 1/3 x 28 3/4<br />
Two Women in the Trees<br />
Dog In Chair<br />
Oil on canvas<br />
Unframed ink drawing<br />
2001<br />
20 x 22 3/4<br />
Our Tree<br />
Unframed drawing<br />
Nina Bohlen monoprint<br />
Unframed monoprint<br />
Hyman bloom ink drawing<br />
Framed ink drawing<br />
Nina’s Steven <strong>Trefonides</strong><br />
Framed ink drawing<br />
3 monoprints by Nina Bohlen<br />
Framed monoprints
Acknowledgements<br />
Thanks to: Nina Bohlen, Steve and Phyllis <strong>Trefonides</strong>,<br />
and their extended family, in particular Tony Rinaldo<br />
for the photography- Tides Institute & Museum of Art,<br />
framers, donors, who else?<br />
Designed by: Lanie Nowak<br />
Printed by:
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