An Abstract Expressionist, Norman Bluhm was born in Chicago in 1921, although as a child he lived in Italy for eight years. His principle education was architecture, and he studied at the Illinois Institute of Technology with Mies van der Rohe. He also studied briefly in Florence before moving to Paris in 1947 to continue studies at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, where he was exposed to the ideas of the Bauhaus philosophy of bringing together aesthetically arts and crafts. Museum References: Dallas Museum of Art, Everson Museum of Art, High Museum of art, National Gallery of Victoria, Neuberger Museum of Art, New York University Collection/Grey Art Gallery, Phoenix Museum of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, The Columbus Museum-Georgia, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, The Phillips Collection, The University of Arizona Museum of Art, University of Kentucky Art Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art