Oscar Bluemner Online Exhibition

In Bluemner’s working sketches we can see how he thinks, how he makes selections, rearrangements, and distillations. These studies not only preserve Bluemner’s speculations on the colors that will be needed to bring their patterns to life, but are so abstracted that the artist needed to label the built elements in the depicted environment in order to remind himself of the function of these stark, geometric forms.

Kessler Woodward American Artist, Art Historian and Curator