Wim BLOM
Paintings, drawings, graphics and collages
1927*
Wim Blom in Menorca, 1967
Brief C.V.
Willem Adriaan BLOM was born on 22nd February, 1927 in Germiston, Transvaal, South Africa.
For more details about Wim Blom's life up to 1974 see „Wim Blom in kaleidoscope“ (Oliver Knight / Willem A Blom) (©) (ISBN 62002208 6).
Wim Blom settled in Canada in September 1959 and later became a citizen of that country.
Fuller CV (©) from Ian Tan Gallery, Vancouver, per 2010 (PDF)
Wim BLOM's studio with work in progress in B.C., Canada, in 2003
Selected Solo Shows in South Africa
1954 - Herbert Evans Art Gallery, Johannesburg
1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960 - Lidchi Gallery, Johannesburg
1963 - Adler Fielding Galleries, Johannesburg
1965 - Adler Fielding Galleries, Johannesburg (70 works)
1969 - Durban Art Gallery, Durban (September) (32 works)
1969 - Gallery 101, Johannesburg (20th October) (32 paintings and drawings) (Press release)
1971 - Gallery 101, Johannesburg (25th October) (30 paintings)
1973, 1979, 1980, 1982, 1984, 1986 - Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg
1984, 1986 - Gallery International, Cape Town
Selected Paintings in date order
"Stillife", 1952 - oil/board - 60x75.5 cm (Strauss & Co., Johannesburg - 8th October, 2012, Lot 504)
"Evening landscape", 1955 - oil/board - 49x59 cm (Strauss & Co., Johannesburg - 11th June, 2012, Lot 185)
"The approaching storm", 1960 - oil/board - 44x56 cm (Bernardi Auctioneers, Pretoria - 28th November, 2011, Lot 740)
"Stillife", 1964 - oil/board - 56x71.5 cm (Stephan Welz & Co., Cape Town - 1st June, 2010, Lot 264)
"Flame figure", 1972 - oil/canvas - 50x40 cm (5th Avenue Auctioneers, Johannesburg - 28th August, 2011, Lot 93)
Selected Works in SA museums
"Man Consumed", 1967 - oil/canvas - 81x96 cm
PELMAMA PERMANENT ART COLLECTION at the PRETORIA ART MUSEUM, PRETORIA
Wim BLOM is represented in various museums in South Africa and abroad, as documented extensively elsewhere.
"Forgotten day in 1865", 1980 - collage - 17x23.5 cm
PELMAMA PERMANENT ART COLLECTION at the OLIEWENHUIS ART MUSEUM, BLOEMFONTEIN
Selected Works in Private SA Collections
"Fragments of memory", 1980 - collage - 15x19 cm (Bernardi Auctioneers, Pretoria - 22nd October 2012 Lot 552)
Selected Works completed outside South Africa
Six Selected Paintings over the years (1988-2006) (PDF)
Selected Publications
"Contemporary Transvaal Art" (Rhodes National Gallery, Salisbury), December/January 1958/1959, cat. 7-10
"South African Artists 1900-1962" (Harold Jeppe) (Afrikaanse Pers-Boekhandel), 1963, pp. 8+9, ill.
SA Association of Arts, Pretoria - "Republic Festival 1966 Art Exhibitions" (May) cat. 22/23
ARTLOOK 7 Johannesburg - 1967 - Vol. I No. VII (June), p. 19, ill.
ARTLOOK 16 Johannesburg - 1968 - Vol. 2 No. 4 (March), p. 19, ill.
ARTLOOK 26 Johannesburg - 1969 - (January), p. 9, ill.
ARTLOOK 37 Johannesburg - 1969 - (December), p. 10/11, ill.
LANTERN (F.E.S.T.), Pretoria - 1970 (December) Vol. XX, No. 2, pp. 36/42, var. ill.
"Art in South Africa - a short survey" - special issue of "Report from South Africa" publ. by SA Embassy, London, July/August, 1972, ill. p. 22
ARTLOOK 84 Johannesburg - 1973 - Vol. 6 No. 11 (November), p. 26, review
"Art-Actualité" - Vie des Arts, vol. 19 no. 75, 1974, p. 71, ill. p. 74 no 25
„Wim Blom in kaleidoscope“ (Oliver Knight / Willem A Blom) (Goodman Gallery), 1977, 80 pp. - ISBN 62002208 6 (see sample pages 7-9©)
"Guide to the Pretoria Art Museum" (A.J. Werth), undated abt. 1977
"South African Art" (James Ambrose Brown) (MacDonald Heritage), 1978, p. 54 - ISBN 0 7967 0009 5
"South African Graphic Art" exhibited in Germany 1978-1979, cat. 6-8
"Art Collection of the University of South Africa" - UNISA Pretoria, Cat. No 1 (1961-1979), p. 75 (ill.), p. 85
Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg ("South African paintings and drawings from the collections of The Friends of the Johannesburg Art Gallery"), November/January 1980/1981, ill. cat. 9
Republic Festival Arts Exhibition, Durban, 1981 (May/June), cat. 27/28, ill.
"Art & Artists of South Africa" (Berman) (Balkema), 1983, pp. 65/66 (3 ill.), 155, 192, 205, 244, 299, 515, 517, 519 - ISBN 0 86961 144 5
Pretoria Art Museum, Pretoria - Quarterly Bulletin Vol. 18 No. 4 1984 October, p. 14
"Johannesburg Art and Artists: Selections from a Century" (Lissoos) (Johannesburg Art Gallery), 1986, p. 58, cat. 4 - ISBN 0 620 10210 1
Pretoria Art Museum, Pretoria - Quarterly Bulletin Vol. 21 No. 4 1987 October, p. 14
"The Dictionary of South African Painters and Sculptors including Namibia" (Ogilvie) (Everard Read), 1988, pp. 68/69 - ISBN 0 620 12663 9
"The Sasol Art Collection", Johannesburg, 1988 (Schmidt), p. 11
"The Standard Bank Corporate Art Collection" (Crump) (Standard Bank Group), 1990, p. 112 - ISBN 0 620 14614 1
"150 South African Paintings Past and Present" (Alexander / Cohen) (Struikhof), 1990, plate 98, p. 122 - ISBN 0 947458 25 5
"Painting in South Africa" (Berman) (Southern Book Publ.), 1993, plate 128, p. 209, ill. - ISBN 1 86812 479 7
"Signature Pieces - The Standard Bank Corporate Art Collection" (Charlton) (Standard Bank / Bell Roberts), 2009, p. 78, ill. - ISBN 978 0 9814200 1 1
"Wim Blom - Paintings, Drawings, Collages 2006-2013" Exhibition cat. ill., published by Ian Tan Gallery, Vancouver BC (7th Sept - 3rd October, 2013)
Selected Group Shows and Awards
1958 Awarded "Special Prize" for Painting: "Unie Vleis presents 50 South African Artists Painting to a given Theme" shown at Lidchi Gallery, Johannesburg, May 1958, cat. 5, ill.
"Century of South African Art 1869-1969" (Eljra Solomon), 1969 Lions International, Johannesburg, cat. 151
1972 Gallery 21, Hyde Park, Johannesburg ("38 leading SA artists") (November) and other gallery group shows until July, 1976
Selected Press cuttings relating mainly to the Gallery 101 exhibitions
Die Transvaler, Johannesburg - 17th October, 1969, ill.
The Star, Johannesburg - 20th October, 1969, ill.
The Star, Johannesburg - 22nd October, 1969
Rand Daily Mail, Johannesburg - 22nd October, 1969, ill.
Die Transvaler, Johannesburg - 31st October, 1969, ill.
The S.A. Jewish Times "Woman Wise" Supplement, Johannesburg - 31st October, 1969, ill.
The Star, Johannesburg - 22nd October, 1971, ill.
Vaderland, Johannesburg - 25th October, 1971, ill.
Rand Daily Mail, Johannesburg - 29th October, 1971, ill.
Transvaler, Johannesburg - 25th October, 1971
The Star, Johannesburg - 2nd November, 1971
Transvaler, Johannesburg - 2nd November, 1971
Sunday Times, Johannesburg - 27th May, 1984, ill.
Beeld, Johannesburg - 27th May, 1982, ill.
Other Notes
During his stay in San Clemente near Mahon (Menorca), Wim Blom had an arrangement with Gallery 101, Johannesburg, which gave it exclusive right to his work in the Witwatersrand area; this ended on 30th June, 1973.
During July 1970 Gallery 101 Johannesburg held the first exhibition of Inuit (Eskimo) art in South Africa - all items had been personally selected by Wim Blom who was then Curatorial Administrator of the Canadian National Gallery in Ottawa.
Note:
Copyright to all paintings by Wim BLOM remains with the artist unless contractually acquired.
Uploaded 20th August, 2013