NORMAN BLUHM
Selected Bibliography of Solo and Group Exhibition Catalogues and Books
1953 Peintres américains en France. Text by Michel Tapié. Paris: Galerie Craven.
1956 Exposition Internationale de l’Art Actuel. Tokyo.
1957 New Aspects of Space. New York: Martha Jackson Gallery.
Rome-New York Art Foundation. Text by Lionello Venturi, Herbert Read, and Michel
Tapié, Rome: Rome-New York Art Foundation.
1958 Abstract Impressionism. London: Arts Council of Great Britain Gallery.
The International Art of A New Era. Osaka: Osaka Festival.
1959 Norman Bluhm. Milan: Galleria del Naviglio. Prefaces by Frank O’Hara and Dore Ashton.
Actualités. Introduction by Lawrence Alloway. London: Arthur Tooth & Sons, Ltd..
Annual Exhibition, Contemporary American Painting, Whitney Museum
of American Art. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art.
100 Works on Paper: I. United States. Boston: Institute of Contemporary Art.
1960 An Exhibition of Avant Garde Paintings: 1960. Memphis: Brooks Memorial Art Gallery.
60 American Painters: 1960. Text by H. H. Arnason. Minneapolis: Walker Art Center.
Society for Contemporary American Art Annual Exhibition XX and 20th
Anniversary Exhibit. Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago.
To Be Continued. Dallas: Dallas Museum for Contemporary Art.
1961 American Abstract Expressionists and Imagists. Foreword by H. H. Arnason. New York:
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Architectural Ideas I & II. New York: Graham Gallery.
Artisti Americani. Turin: Galleria Notizie.
Modern American Painting. London: American Embassy.
Norman Bluhm. Turin: Galleria Notizie.
Recent Developments in Painting IV. London: Arthur Tooth & Sons Ltd..
Six Decades of American Painting. Des Moines: Des Moines Art Center
McDarrah, Fred W. The Artist’s World, in Pictures. Introduction by Thomas B. Hess
New York: E.P. Dutton
1962 Bluhm, Gallizio, Onishi, Shiraga, Tapies, Twombly. Text by Carla Lonzi. Alba:
Accademia Filarmonico Letteraria.
L’incontro di Torino. Torino: Palazzo della Promotrice al Valentino.
Longview Foundation Grants. Texts by Thomas B. Hess and Harold Rosenberg. New
Orleans: Dillard University; Kalamazoo: Kalamazoo Institute of Arts
1963 An Exhibition of the Jean Outland Chrysler Collection. Norfolk: Norfolk Museum.
International Directory of Art 1964. Milan: Editoriale Metro.
1964 American Drawings. Foreword by Thomas M. Messer. Introduction by Lawrence
Alloway.New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
Intuiciones y realizaciones formales. Exhibition of works selected by Michel Tapié.
Buenos Aires: Centro de Artes Visuales, Instituto Torcuato Di Tella.
Recent Accessions. University of Massachusetts.
64th American Exhibition: Paintings/Sculpture. Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago.
XXème Salon de Mai. Paris: Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris.
1965 Norman Bluhm. Text by Thomas B. Hess. Paris: David Anderson Gallery.
Abstract Watercolors by Fourteen Americans. Exhibition under the auspices of the
International Council of The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Introduction by Frank
O’Hara. London: American Embassy. Melbourne: National Gallery of Victoria.
A University Collects. Introduction by Howard S.Conant and Ruth Gurin. New York: New
York University Art Collection and The American Federation of Arts.
International Art. Copenhagen: American Art Gallery.
U.S.A. - Nouvelle Peinture. Paris.
1966 L’avant Garde Mondiale 1966. Paris: Palais Galleria.
The 180 Beacon Street Collection of Contemporary Art. Boston.
Two Decades of American Painting. An Exhibition under the auspices of the International
Council of The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Texts by Lucy R. Lippard, Waldo
Rasmussen,Irving Sandler and G. R. Swenson. Toyko: National Museum of Modern
Art. Melbourne: National Gallery of Victoria. New Delhi: Lalit Kala Akademi.
1967 Berkson, Bill. Poem-Paintings by Frank O’Hara and Norman Bluhm. New York: New
York University
O’Hara, Frank. In Memory of My Feelings. New York: The Museum of Modern Art,
Whitney, David, ed. Leo Castelli: Ten Years. New York: Leo Castelli.
1968 Norman Bluhm. Preface by Pierre Schneider. Paris: Galerie Stadler.
Rubin, William S. Dada, Surrealism, and Their Heritage. New York: The Museum of
Modern Art, 1968.
1969 Paintings by Norman Bluhm. Foreword by James Harithas. Introduction by William C.
Agee. Washington, D. C.: The Corcoran Gallery of Art.
Frasnay, Daniel. The Artist’s World. Text and photographs by Daniel Frasnay. Preface by
René Huyghe. New York: The Viking Press; French translation, Leur monde. Paris:
Draeger Frères
Myers, John Bernard, ed. The Poets of the New York School. Philadelphia: University of
Pennsylvania.
Rosenberg, Harold. Artworks and Packages. New York: Horizon Press.
1971 Accessions 1970-71. Foreword by Ulfert Wilke. Iowa City: The University of Iowa
Museum of Art.
The Vincent Melzac Collection. Foreword by Walter Hopps. Introduction by Ellen Gross.
LeSueur, Joseph. “Four Apartments.” Another World. Ed. Anne Waldman. Indianapolis:
The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc.
O’Hara, Frank. Collected Poems. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
1972 Martha Jackson Gallery Collection. Tokyo: The Seibu Department Stores.
1972 Annual Exhibition Contemporary American Painting. Foreword by John I. H. Baur.
New York: Whitney Museum of American Art.
1973 Norman Bluhm. Preface by James Harithas. Introduction by Thomas B. Hess. Syracuse:
The Everson Museum of Art.
1974 Norman Bluhm. Text by Peter Schjeldahl. Venice: Circolo Artistico Palazzo delle Prigioni
Vecchie.
Norman Bluhm. ( “The Evolution of Norman Bluhm” by Peter Schjeldahl, from Art
International, May, 1974. Milan: Galleria Il Cerchio and Galleria Rinaldo Rotta.
1975 Color in Language. An Exhibition under the auspices of the International Council of the
Museum of Modern Art, New York. Text by Kynaston McShine and Waldo
Rasmussen. Bogotá: Museo de Arte Moderno. El Lenguaje del Color. Caracas:
Museo de Bellas Artes. El Color como Lenguaje, Pinturas. Mexico, D. F.: Museo de
Arte Moderno, Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes.
Berkson, Bill. Saturday Night: Poems 1960-1961. Cover by Norman Bluhm. Berkeley:
Sand Dollar.
Grun, Bernard. The Timetables of History. New York: Simon and Schuster.
1976 Norman Bluhm. Texts by James Harithas and Paul Schimmel. Houston: Contemporary
Arts Museum.
Abstract Expressionists and Imagists: A Retrospective View. An Exhibition of Paintings
from the Michener Collection. Text by Earl A. Powell III. Austin: The University of
Texas Art Museum.
Around 10th Street: Abstract Expressionism in the 1950s. Chicago: Young Hoffman
Gallery. Text by Harold Rosenberg (from Art News Annual, Nov. 1958).
Georges Duthuit. Ed. Frances Bouvet Texts by Samuel Beckett, Yves Bonnefoy, René
Char, Henri Maldiney, Pierre Schneider, Camille Schuwer, Patrick Waldberg.
Engravings by Norman Bluhm, Milos Bokor, André Masson, Joan Miro, Jean-Paul
Riopelle, Pierre Tal-Coat, Bram van Velde. Paris: Flammarion.
1977 Norman Bluhm. Text by Jane Livingston. Washington, D. C.: The Corcoran Gallery of Art.
Auster, Paul. Fragments From Cold. Drawings by Norman Bluhm. New York:
Parenthèse, 1977.
O’Hara, Frank. Art Chronicles 1945-1966. New York: George Braziller.
O’Hara, Frank. “To Norman en Voyage.” Poems Retrieved. Ed. Donald Allen. Bolinas:
Grey Fox Press.
Perloff, Marjorie. Frank O’Hara: Poet Among Painters. New York: George Braziller.
1978 Aesthetics of Graffiti. Introduction by Rolando Castellon. San Francisco: San Francisco
Museum of Modern Art.
1979 Americans in Paris: The 50s; Américains à Paris: Les 50s. Introduction by Merle
Schipper. Northridge: Fine Arts Gallery, California State University.
1980 Arte Americana Contemporanea. Introduction by Marisa Volpi Orlandini. Udine: Istituto
per l’Enciclopedia del Friuli Venezia Giulia.
1981 Tracking the Marvelous. Foreword by Robert R. Littman. Text by John Bernard Myers.
New York: Grey Art Gallery and Study Center, New York University.
1982 Poets and Artists. East Hampton: Guild Hall.
Recent Trends in Collecting. Texts by Harry Lowe, Joshua C. Taylor, and Harry Rand.
Washington, D. C.: The National Museum of American Art.
1983 Zwanzig Jahre Kunst in Frankreich, 1960-1980 [ 20 Years of Art in France - Vingt ans
d’art en France, 1960-1980.]. Text by Marcelin Pleynet. Mainz: Mittelrheinisches
Landesmuseum.
1984 Action/Precision: The New Direction in New York, 1955-60. Texts by Paul Schimmel,
B. H. Friedman, John Bernard Myers, Robert Rosenblum. Newport: Newport Harbor
Art Museum.
Norman Bluhm: Seven from the Seventies. Text by John Bernard Myers. Stony Brook:
The Fine Arts Center Art Gallery, State University of New York at Stony Brook.
Berggruen, John, and Henry T. Hopkins.The Zurier Collection. San Francisco: John
Berggruen Gallery.
1985 Galerie Stadler: 30 ans de rencontres, de recherches, de partis pris, 1955-1985. Interview
by Marcel Cohen with Rodolphe Stadler. Paris: Galerie Stadler.
The Martha Jackson Memorial Collection. Foreword by Charles C. Eldredge. Text by
Harry Rand. Washington, D.C.: National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian
Institution.
Painting as Landscape, Views of American Modernism, 1920-1984. Text by Klaus Kertess, Robert
Lehman Curator. Southampton: The Parrish Art Museum. Pasadena:
The Baxter Art Gallery, California Institute of Technology.
1986 Norman Bluhm: Paintings and Works on Paper. New York: Washburn Gallery.
1987 Norman Bluhm: Works on Paper 1947-1987. Preface and Conversation with the Artist by
William Salzillo. “Norman Bluhm and the Venetian Tradition” by John Yau. Clinton
Hamilton College.
Poem Prints: Norman Bluhm and John Yau. Preface by Jon Cone. Introduction by John
Yau. New York: Cone Editions.
Leo Castelli y sus Artistas. Texts by Nazario Ortiz Garza, Robert Littman, Calvin Tomkins,
Robert Pincus-Witten, Judith Goldman. Interview by Mary Jo Marks with Leo Castelli.
México, D. F.: Centro Cultural/Arte Contemporaneo.
1988 American Abstract Drawings, 1930-1987. Selections from the Arkansas Arts Center
Foundation Collection. Text by Townsend Wolfe. Little Rock: Arkansas Arts Center.
Des américains à Paris. 1950/1965. "Americains à Paris: Premier Approche" by Yves
Michaud. Chateau de Jau: Fondation Chateau de Jau.
Drawing on the East End, 1940-1988. Foreword by Trudy C. Kramer. “Some
Lines from the East End” by Klaus Kertess. Southampton: The Parrish Art Museum.
Inaugural Exhibition of Twentieth-Century American Art. Foreword by James A. Michener.
Introduction by Linda Constant Buki. Doylestown: James A. Michener Arts Center.
1989 Norman Bluhm. Text by John Yau. New York: Washburn Gallery.
Norman Bluhm: Selected Paintings. Scottsdale: Riva Yares Gallery.
1990 East Hampton Avant-Garde, A Salute to the Signa Gallery, 1957-1960. Introduction by
Dore Ashton. “A Sign of the Times,” by Helen A. Harrison. East Hampton: Guild Hall
Museum and East Hampton Center for Contemporary Art.
Norman Bluhm: The 1950’s. “Three Airs to Norman Bluhm” by Frank O’Hara. New York:
Washburn Gallery.
1991 Norman Bluhm: Paintings 1960-65. Illus. "Flight 114 'For Norman Bluhm’” by Bill Berkson.
New York: Washburn Gallery.
1992 Norman Bluhm: Works on paper 1967-1991. “A Toast to the Neo-Puritans: Norman
Bluhm in Context” by Meyer Raphael Rubinstein. Livorno: Edizioni Roberto Peccolo.
1993 Premiére Triennale des Amériques. Maubeuge: Association IDEM+ARTS.
Gooch, Brad. City Poet: The Life and Times of Frank O’Hara. New York: Knopf.
1994 Gizzi, Peter. Hours of the Book. “Vespers: for Norman Bluhm.” Gran Canaria: Zasterle Press.
1995 Norman Bluhm: Opere 1993-1995. Texts by Francesco Tedeschi and Barry Schwabsky.
Livorno: Galleria Peccolo and Studio Zanoletti.
1996 Después de Goya: Una mirada subjetiva [After Goya, a subjective look]. Saragossa:
Electa.
Pintura Estadounidense.Expresionismo Abstracto. Introduction by Irving Sandler:
“Abstract Expressionism and the American Experience.” México, D. F.: Centro
Cultural/Arte Contemporaneo.
1997 Quarant’anni in blu. Milan: Galleria Blu.
Tapié, Un Art Autre: Torino Parigi New York Osaka. Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e
Contemporanea di Torino; Espace d’Art Moderne et Contemporain de Toulouse et Midi
Pyrénées. Torino: Edizioni d’Arte Fratelli Pozzo.
Lima, Frank. Inventory, New & Selected Poems. “The Memory of Benny (Kid) Paret: to
Norman & Cary Bluhm.” West Stockbrige: Hard Press.
Rubinstein, Raphael. New York Abstraction: a Symposium. “In Praise of Plasticity.”
Guelph, Ontario: Macdonald Stewart Art Centre.
Rubinstein, Raphael. Peintures croisées. “Le jour de Bluhm;” “À la santé des
néopuritains: Norman Bluhm dans son contexte.” Paris: L’Harmattan
Rubinstein, Raphael. Tableau: Territoires Actuels [New Territories in Painting]. “Le
Retour de l’Érotique [The Return of the Erotic].” Valence: Ecole Régionale des Beaux-
Arts; Quimper: Le Quartier, Centre d’Art.
Schwabsky, Barry. The Widening Circle, Consequences of Modernism in Contemporary
Art. “Norman Bluhm and the Eternal Feminine.” Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
1998 Norman Bluhm (opere 1959-1967). Texts by Roberto Ferdani and Norman Bluhm.
Livorno: Edizioni Roberto Peccolo.
1999 Norman Bluhm: A Tribute Exhibition. James Harithas, Raphael Rubinstein, and Louis B.
Zona. Youngstown, Ohio: The Butler Institute of American Art.
O’Hara, Bluhm & Goldberg, Un poeta e due pittori a New York negli anni ‘50. Text by
Roberto Ferdani. Chiavari: Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea di Palazzo Rocca.
Ferguson, Russell. In Memory of My Feelings: Frank O’Hara and American Art. Los
Angeles: The Museum of Contemporary Art, University of California Press.
2000 Norman Bluhm, Opere su carta 1948-1999. James Harithas and John Yau. Milan:
Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Edizioni Mazzotta.
Norman Bluhm. James Harithas, Raphael Rubinstein, and Luigi Sansone. Milan: Edizioni
Mazzotta.
2003 American Abstract Expressionism of the 1950’s, An Illustrated Survey. Edited by Marika Herskovic.
New York, New Jersey: New York School Press.
2004 An American Odyssey 1945/1980 [Debating Modernism]. Stephen C. Foster, Daniel A. Siedell,
Estera Milman, John Yau, Janis Mink. “Chronicles of the Creative Act”. Madrid: Circulo de
Bellas Artes
On Paper, Masterworks from the Addison Collection. Andover: Addison Gallery of American Art,
Phillips Academy
2005 Norman Bluhm, Works on Paper from the 70s, 80s, and 90s from the Estate of Norman Bluhm.
New York; James Graham & Sons.
2006 Blanton Museum of Art, American Art Since 1900. Edited by Annete DiMeo Carlozzi and Kelly
Baum. Raphael Rubinstein, “Virtuosity in Crisis: Norman Bluhm, Sam Francis, and Joan Mitchell
circa 1960”. Austin, Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas.
2007 Norman Bluhm, Selected Works. New York; James Graham & Sons.
Norman Bluhm, Selected Works from 1976-1989. Los Angeles; Manny Silverman Gallery
The Late Paintings of Norman Bluhm. James Harithas. Houston: Station Museum of
Contemporary Art
2008 New York Cool, Painting and Sculpture from the NYU Art Collection. Edited by Pepe Karmel.
Essays by Lynn Gumpert, Pepe Karmel, Alexandra Lange, and Lytle Shaw. New York:
Grey Art Gallery, New York University
Action Painting. Pepe Karmel, Robert Fleck, Jason Kaufman, Gottfried Boehm, Ulf Kuster.
Riehen/Basel: Fondation Beyeler.
2009 Abstract Expressionism: Further Evidence, Painting & Sculpture. New York: Michael Rosenfeld
Gallery.
Circa 1959. Roni Feinstein. New York: Jacobson Howard Gallery.
Norman Bluhm: Gestural Structures 1960-65. Bremen/Berlin: Kunsthandel Wolfgang Werner
Norman Bluhm, A Retrospective of Works on Paper 1948-1998. Text by John Yau (Opere su
carta 1948-1999. James Harithas and John Yau. Milan: Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea,
Edizioni Mazzotta). New York: Jacobson Howard Gallery
