Sinuous Abstraction
Engraving on plaster, circa 1946-47, edition unknown. 8 x 10 in. Unsigned. This is a fine impression printed on plaster. The condition is fine. The image is printed to the edge of the plaster. He began studying art at the Graphic Sketch Club and the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art in 1922. He continued his education at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (1925-29), where he studied painting with Henry McCarter, drawing with Daniel Garber, and sketching with with Arthur B. Carles, who became his mentor. He also studied with Stanley William Hayter in 1945 at the Print Club in Philadelphia. Blackburn worked as a painter, etcher, engraver, lithographer and serigrapher, being one of the pioneers in the development of silkscreen printing. He taught at various art schools, including the Tyler School of Art, from 1948 to 1952 and joined the faculty of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in 1952. This remarkable and highly creative work is quite rare. Provenance: Dolan/Maxwell Gallery and Hirschl & Adler Gallery. Sold with the frame.
$3,500