#robertblackburn

[bm-contemporary-art]

Girl in Red, Robert Blackburn, 1950, Brooklyn Museum: Contemporary Art

Size: 18 1/4 x 12 11/16 in. (46.3 x 32.3 cm) Medium: Lithograph on paper

https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/64800

[mtaartsdesign]

In honor of  Black History Month, we are highlighting the career of master printmaker Robert Blackburn whose dynamic abstract mosaics at 116th Street (6 line) bring the color and movement of the streets above into the station.  Having grown up in Harlem studying art,  Blackburn founded the famous Printmaking Workshop in Harlem in 1948, and in 2001 MTA Arts & Design commissioned him to create “In Everything There Is A Season”, (2005).  Due to poor health, he chose artist Mei-Tei-Sing Smith, a Bearden Fellow at the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, to assist him on what would prove to be his last major project.  Once completed, his maquettes were enlarged and transformed into ceramic and glass mosaics. Blackburn died in April 2003.

[bm-contemporary-art]

Root - Toot No. 1, Robert Blackburn, 1968-1969, Brooklyn Museum: Contemporary Art

Size: 22 3/4 x 17 1/8 in. (57.8 x 43.5 cm) Sheet: 30 1/4 x 22 3/8 in. (76.8 x 56.8 cm) Medium: Lithograph on paper

https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/97227

[bm-contemporary-art]

Root - Toot No. 1, Robert Blackburn, 1968-1969, Brooklyn Museum: Contemporary Art

Size: 22 3/4 x 17 1/8 in. (57.8 x 43.5 cm) Sheet: 30 1/4 x 22 3/8 in. (76.8 x 56.8 cm) Medium: Lithograph on paper

https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/97227

[bm-contemporary-art]

Boy with Green Head, Robert Blackburn, 1948, Brooklyn Museum: Contemporary Art

Size: sheet: 20 x 14 1/4 in. (50.8 x 36.2 cm) image: 14 3/8 x 10 1/4 in. (36.5 x 26 cm) Medium: Lithograph

https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/63308

[moma-prints]

Faux Pas, Robert Blackburn, 1960, MoMA: Drawings and Prints

Gift of the artist's estate Size: composition: 22 1/4 × 16 5/8" (56.5 × 42.3 cm) Medium: Lithograph

http://www.moma.org/collection/works/192228

[harvard-art-museums-prints]

Sunday Afternoon, Robert Blackburn, 2000, Harvard Art Museums: Prints

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Sarah-Ann and Werner H. Kramarsky Used with Permission. © The Estate of Robert Blackburn Size: plate: 45.5 x 38 cm (17 15/16 x 14 15/16 in.) Medium: Spitbite and aquatint on handmade paper

https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/187020

[angmigfin]

#Repost @efa.rbpmw with @repostapp ・・・ #prontolitho class @studiomuseum in conjunction with must see exhibition #circa1970 featuring woodblock by #robertblackburn (at The Studio Museum in Harlem)