 With the then Curator of the Art Gallery of Western Australia, Robert Campbell, she helped found the Art Group, a discussion group through which she promoted modernist ideas and attitudes in art and art education.In the 1950s Blumann became disillusioned with the possibilities of art in Western Australia and only painted sporadically.Her work first received national attention in the late 1970s some fifteen years before she died in 1990, aged 93.