“Looking beyond his well-established reputation as an Abstract Expressionist, this exhibition presents five decades of Bluhm’s prolific production, foregrounding his later paintings as well as the formative decade he spent in Paris in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Bluhm’s evolving engagement with his chosen medium, oil paint, and his interests in myth, poetry, and global art history will be explored, with emphasis on his integration of figuration into his previously abstract idiom.” The Newark Museum of Art