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Peter Blume, a leading modern American painter, lived in Sherman, Connecticut amidst an international artistic community. Hear curator Erin Monroe speak in the Peter Blume: Nature and Metamorphosis and Visions from Home: Surrealism in Connecticut exhibitions about how the environment in CT impacted Blume’s work and that of his friends and neighbors, including Alexander Calder and Arshile Gorky.
A free screening of the film Without Gorky follows at 1 pm.
Image: Peter Blume, The Italian Straw Hat, 1952, Oil on paper on board, 22 1/4 x 30 3/8 in. Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT, The Schnakenberg Fund, 1955.32 Art © The Educational Alliance, Inc./Estate of Peter Blume/Licensed by VAGA, New York