Signed and dated Bluhm 84,lower middle

Provenance: Private Collector,Tucson,Arizona acquired in 1984 from Riva Yares Gallery,Scottsdale,Arizona and passed by family descent to Private Collector,Tucson,Arizona.Born in Chicago in 1921,Bluhm took a somewhat circuitous route to becoming an artist. He studied architecture at the Armour Institute of Technology (now the Illinois Institute of Technology) under Mies van der Rohe for three years before he enlisted in the United States Army Air Corps in 1941. Most scholars agree that his experience as a B-26 pilot during the war,flying missions over North Africa and Europe,had a profound effect upon his later career as a painter.  His work incorporates the sense of space and the feeling of speed.Bluhm decided to devote himself to art in 1947. He studied briefly at the Accademia di Belle Arte in Florence.  He lived in Paris from 1947-1956 where he attended both the Académie de la Grand Chaumière and the Ecole des Beaux Arts. Here he became acquainted with Alberto Giacometti and other modern painters. Bluhm moved to New York City in 1956 and soon began showing his works at such renowned galleries as Leo Castelli and Martha Jackson in Manhattan and Galerie Stadler in Paris. From the late 1950s until his death in 1999,Bluhm exhibited regularly in group and solo shows throughout America and abroad