NORMAN BLUHM

American (1921-1999)

GREEN #1, 1954
oil on canvas
76 ½ x 51 inches

BIOGRAPHY

1921
Born Chicago, Illinois, on March 28

1936-41
Studied architecture with Mies van der Rohe at Armour Institute of Technology
(later Illiniois Institute of Technology)

1941-45
Served in the United States Army Air Force

1945
Returned to architecture studies at IIT. Studied at Accademia dí Belle Arti, Florence, Italy

1947-56
Lived in Paris, France

1947
Studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris, France

1949
Acted in Jean Cocteau’s film Orphée

1950
Married Claude Souvrain (divorced 1956)

1956
Returned to New York City

1961
Married Cary Ogle

1962
Birth of son David

1963
Birth of daughter Nina

1964-65
Lived in Paris, France

1965
Returned to New York City

1970-81
Lived in Millbrook, New York

1981-86
Lived in East Hampton, New York

1986
Moved to Vermont

1999
Died at home in East Wallingford, Vermont, on February 3