Bob Blackburn List of Photos

PHOTO FILE- PHOTOS CORRESPOND TO SLIDESHOW

Photo- Robert Blackburn, 1987
Photograph by Peter Sumner Walton Bellamy

Refugees (aka People in a Boat) 1938
Lithograph 11 1/8” 15 ¾”, edition 4 of 8
Loan from North Carolina Central University Art Museum, Gift of Christopher Maxey, Photograph in Monograph by Peter Geoffrion

Boy with Green Head 1948
Lithograph, 14 ½” x  10 ½”
Loan from the Clark Atlanta University Art Collection, Courtesy of Clark Atlanta University Art Collection

Girl in Red, 1950
Lithograph, 18 ¼” x 13 ½”
Loan from Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress, Washington D.C.
Photograph by Karl Peterson

Note: This reproduction includes registration marks, which Blackburn used to align the various colors, as well as the printed edge of a lithographic stone.  Normally, these marks from the artist’s process would be covered by a mat.

Red Wine Glass c. 1950
Lithograph, 12 ¼ x 17
Loan from Nelson/Dunks Collection. Photograph by Greg Staley

Blue Wine Bottle c. 1951

Still Life(aka White Jug), c.1950
Lithograph, 13 ½” x 18 ¼” Loan from Nelson/Dunks Collection.
Photograph by Greg Staley

Red Pipe (aka Red Pitcher Still Life)1958
Lithograph16 ½” x 21 3/4 “
Loan from Wes and Missy Cochran, Cochran collection, Photograph by Ben Arnold

BLACKBURN’S STILL LIFES BECOME MORE ABSTRACT

Quiet Instrument 1958
Lithograph, 11 ¼ x 8 ¾” edition 11 of 12 ( ed.number may differ)
Loan from Nelson/Dunks Collection, Photograph by Greg Staley

Reflections (aka The Mirror). 1960
Lithograph, 18 ½” x  23 ¾”
Loan from Nelson/Dunks Collection, photograph by Greg Staley

Heavy Forms (Pink) 1958
Lithograph, 15 ¾” x 19 ½”
Loan from Wes and Missy Cochran, Cochran Collection. Photograph by Karl Peterson

Heavy Forms (Pink) 1958
Lithograph, 19 ½” x 15 ¾”
Loan from Nelson/Dunks Collection.  Photograph by Greg Staley

Heavy Forms, 1961
Lithograph, 15 ¾” x 19 ½” Loan from Wes and Missy Cochran, Cochran Collection, Photograph by Karl Peterson

Additionally- in Deborah Cullen’s essay
Heavy forms, 1961
Lithograph, edition of 10
15 ¾” x 19 ½”
The Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop Print Collection
Image c: the estate of Robert Blackburn.  Used with Permission.  Prints and photographs Division.  The Library of Congress, Washington D.C.

Blue Window, c 1962-1963
Lithograph, 17 ½’ x 26 ¾”
Loan from Wes and Missy Cochran, Cochran Collection.  Photograph by Karl Peterson

Windowed Shapes, 1963
Lithograph, 17 ½” x 26 ½”
Loan from Wes and Missy Cochran, Cochran Collection.  Photograph by Karl Peterson

NOTE- we don’t know which actual print as is not in reverse of illustrated print images

This is an example of woodblock used to create one of the Three Ovals (aka The Ovals) prints ca late 1960’s- early1970s
Woodcut, 12 x 15 ¼”
Image c: the Estate of Robert Blackburn, Used with permission

Three Ovals (aka The Ovals), 1960’s-1970s
Woodcut, 17 1/5” x 14 ½”
Loan from Nelson/Dunks Collection.  Photograph by Greg Staley

Red Inside, 1972 – late 1980s
Woodcut, 12” x 11 ½”
Loan from Nelson/Dunks Collection.  Photograph by Greg Staley

Woodscape, 1984
Woodcut, 12’ x 15 1/4”
Loan from the estate of Robert Blackburn and the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, NY, Photograph by Karl Peterson

Blue Things, c.1963-1970
Woodcut, 20” x 26”
Loan from Wes and Misty Cochran, Cochran Collection, Photograph by Karl Peterson

Purple Flash III, 1972
Woodcut, 26” x 20”
Loan from Nelson/Dunks Collection.  Photograph by Greg Staley

Yellow Flash, 1972
Woodut, 26” x 20”
Loan from Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.  Photograph by Karl Peterson

Modern Times, 1974
Woodcut, 11 ½” x 11 ¼”
Loan from Nelson Nelson/Dunks Collection. Photograph by Greg Staley

Modern Times, 1984
Woodcut, 11 ½”x 11 ¼”
Loan from Wes and Missy Cochran, Cochran Collection, photograph by Karl Peterson

Sunburst, 1967-1969
Woodcut, 20”x 25”
Loan from Robin Holder, Photograph by  Karl Peterson

Space Shape (aka Space Ship, Kiss Shape), 1970
Woodcut, 22” x 20”
Loan from Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress, Washington D.C. Photograph by Karl Peterson

Penumbra I (aka Walk in the Shade), 1970-1974
Woodcut, 20” x 26”
Loan from Nelson/Dunks Collection.  Photograph by Greg Staley


No comments: