Artwork

Works of art by Blume include sketches, preliminary drawings, prints, and one final drawing. Media include pencil, pen, pastel, and charcoal. Sketches entitled Doodles were likely numbered and identified by Blume. Also found are a series of drawings of heads, some of which are mounted. Studies for Blume's works include: Parade (1930), The Obelisk (1932), Harps (1932), Fracture Ward (1945), The Rock (1948), The Shrine (1950), The Crucifixion (1951), Castle of Euralyus (1952), Landscape in Bali (1954), The Passage to Aetna (1956), Hadrian's Villa (1958), Tasso's Oak (1960), Banyon Trees (1961), Winter (1964), Summer (1966), Satyr with Cock (1967), Recollection of the Flood (1969), Boulders of Avila (1976), From the Metamorphosis (1979), Crashing Surf (1982), and Autumn (1984). Works by Peter Blume owned by the Craton family are also found. These include three prints, one entitled Harps, and one drawing entitled New England Snow, which was exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1938. Also found is a work by Deborah Nourse Lattimore entitled Gilt Venus.