Bloom (Hyman) is born in Latvia.

[8/18] The son of Jewish immigrants, Hyman Bloom arrives in Boston in 1920, lives initially in the West End, graduates from the High School of Commerce, and works for the Federal Arts Project during the Depression. He establishes a studio on Dartmouth Street in approximately 1945, helps found the Boston Expressionists school, but retains a representational approach in his religious, autopsy, and landscape paintings. The Boston Globe declares, “[Bloom combines] the muscularity of Michelangelo and . . . spirituality of William Blake.” Bloom teaches at Wellesley College and Harvard University, moves to Nashua, New Hampshire, in 1978 [1983], and continues painting until his death there on August 26, 2009.