Study for The Rock
Peter Blume
1943–1948
- Medium
- Oil paint, with traces of graphite, on laminated wood pulp board, hinged to dark green wove paper
- Dimensions
- 10.7 × 12.9 cm (4 1/4 × 5 1/8 in.)
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
oil paintings (visual works)drawings (visual works)graphiteprints and drawingstudyorganic materialpaper (fiber product)
About
The Russian-born artist Peter Blume employed the Renaissance technique of making drawings and multiple small-scale paintings in preparation for his large-scale, finished compositions. This drawing, given to the museum by the artist in the 1960s, is one of many studies for the Art Institute’s painting The Rock (1956.338). Taken as a group, these studies demonstrate the artist’s working method and show the progression of The Rock from an idea to the finished painting.
