Education
After a conventional education in New York City's public schools, he studied painting at the Art Student Educational Alliance, the Art Student's League, and the Ecole des Beaux Arts. In 1932 and 1936 he held Guggenheim fellowships.
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Peter Blume
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Career
His winning of the Carnegie International Prize in 1934 for his painting South of Scranton (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City) made him the youngest artist to be so honored.
In addition to some murals done between 1937 and 1943 for the Public Buildings Administration of the United States Treasury, Blume's production consists of a small but far more important group of easel paintings including such works as Light of the World (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City), The Eternal City (Museum of Modern Art, New York City), and The Rock (Art Institute of Chicago).
