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Graham Gallery  Le-5-5566
1014 Madison Ave., New York

PRESS RELEASE


OSCAR BLUEMNER -- GRAHAM GALLERY -- Second Floor -- DECEMBER 7-31, 1960
(1876-1938)

". . . Even a factory tower in his compositions now takes on a poetic cast. His water colors are complete and finished affairs and I consider them among the most important productions of the period. 
Henry McBride
New York Sun, April 17, 1926


My friend, Stephen Bourgeois, has often exhorted me "To tell about my paintings, what I feel, but not to bore them with my theories". However . . . I do not mean to state the physical aspects of what I see or as I see it, and I am unable to say what I feel. Or, can you fully explain what you feel and "carry into nature?" ART is a matter of emotion. Has the painter "something" to say? Is it "Painting?" These two criterions together with the peculiarities of American life and country make all general controversies about painting, here and all foreign and artificial standards or 'isms' useless. Accordingly I wish to be judged.' 
Oscar Bluemner, 1924

This morning I spent nearly 3/4 hour at Bourgeois' looking at your work most of the time. I enjoyed the work greatly and the being alone with it . . . The work is virile--it's your own--and it's damn good--If I had money I'd certainly have to have at least one to live with . . . So you see between you and Hodge I spent the day with solid honesty. The living creative kind . . .
from a letter to Oscar Bluemner by Alfred Stieglitz, January 6, 1919