Study for The Rock
1943/45
Peter Blume American, born Russia, 1906-1992
United States
The Russian-born artist Peter Blume employed the Renaissance technique of making drawings and multiple small-scale paintings in preparation for his large 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, the studies for the painting demonstrate the artist’s working method and show the progression of The Rock from an idea to the finished painting.
Oil paint, with pen and black ink on white wove paper, tipped on dark green wove paper