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Vern Blosum
Vern Blosum is a semi-fictional character who appeared in the 1960's in the United States. Between 1961 and 1965 Blosum created the total output of his work, which is estimated at 45 paintings of common objects in the style of Pop art. Vern Blosum passed away in the summer 2017.

History
The MoMa acquired in 1963 Blosum's parking meter painting entitled Time Expired (1962) at the Galerie Leo Castelli. But after having failed to confirm the identity of the artist, MoMA placed the work into a permanent storage in 1973.

In 1963 the group exhibition "The Popular Image" that took place at the Washington Gallery of Museum Art and the exhibition "Mixed Media and Pop Art" at the Albright Knox Gallery included Vern Blosum's work. The MoMa acquired in 1963 Blosum's parking meter painting entitled Time Expired (1962) through the art dealer Leo Castelli. But after having failed to confirm the identity of the artist, MoMA placed the work into a permanent storage in 1973.

Lucy Lippard included a reproduction of a Vern Blosum painting in her book Pop Art. In his Smithsonian archives interview in1972, Larry Aldrich also mentioned buying Blosum's work, but none is listed in the Aldrich Museum's collection database.

Vern Blosum resurfaced two times in 2013 with a solo exhibition at the Los Angeles gallery Assembly and Tomwork as well as one at Essex Street Gallery in New York. Essex Street Gallery presented 8 paintings from Vern Blosum. His five first paintings of flowers from 1961, his final painting which is a Stop Sign in 1964. A solo exhibition of Blosum's work has been presented at Kunsthalle Bern in 2014. Then in 2015 Essex Street Gallery presented a solo exhibition entitled Late Work by Vern Blosum.

Vern Blosum August 20, 2017. Essex Street gallery which was representing the artist, confirmed the news, but did not provide a place or cause of death. The identity of Vern Blosum is still unknown.