E. Maurice Bloch; Art Historian
E. Maurice Bloch, art historian, educator and longtime head of UCLA’s Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, died Wednesday at St. John’s Medical Center in Santa Monica.
He was 74, and friends said his death was caused by pneumonia following surgery.
Born and educated in New York, where he received master’s and doctoral degrees from New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts, Bloch taught at various universities throughout the Midwest before coming to UCLA in 1956.
During his tenure, the collection there grew from 5,000 to more than 35,000 prints, drawings and photographs and is considered one of the major print collections in the country.
He left UCLA in 1983 to become curator of the Virginia Steele Scott collection of American art at the Huntington Library.
There are no immediate survivors.
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