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1920 Summit, New Jersey - 2003 New York City. Known for: Mod imagery printmaking, educator.
New Jersey-born artist, teacher, and master printmaker, Robert Blackburn is best known for his pioneering contributions to the development of abstract color lithography. In New York in 1948 he... Read full biography
New Jersey-born artist, teacher, and master printmaker, Robert Blackburn is best known for his pioneering contributions to the development of abstract color lithography. In New York in 1948 he established a cooperative press, the Printmaking Workshop. In the mid-1950s, he traveled and studied in... Read full biography
New Jersey-born artist, teacher, and master printmaker, Robert Blackburn is best known for his pioneering contributions to the development of abstract color lithography. In New York in 1948 he established a cooperative press, the Printmaking Workshop. In the mid-1950s, he traveled and studied in Europe. He collaborated with such artists as Jim Dine, Helen Frankenthaler, Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg from 1959 to 1963 as the first master printer for Universal Limited Art Editions in West... Read full biography
New Jersey-born artist, teacher, and master printmaker, Robert Blackburn is best known for his pioneering contributions to the development of abstract color lithography. In New York in 1948 he established a cooperative press, the Printmaking Workshop. In the mid-1950s, he traveled and studied in Europe. He collaborated with such artists as Jim Dine, Helen Frankenthaler, Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg from 1959 to 1963 as the first master printer for Universal Limited Art Editions in West Islip, New York, where he often taught these artists the medium. He then returned exclusively to the Printmaking Workshop. Among his numerous honors are a MacArthur Fellowship (1992) and lifetime achievement awards from Skowhegan (1987) and the... Read full biography
New Jersey-born artist, teacher, and master printmaker, Robert Blackburn is best known for his pioneering contributions to the development of abstract color lithography. In New York in 1948 he established a cooperative press, the Printmaking Workshop. In the mid-1950s, he traveled and studied in Europe. He collaborated with such artists as Jim Dine, Helen Frankenthaler, Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg from 1959 to 1963 as the first master printer for Universal Limited Art Editions in West Islip, New York, where he often taught these artists the medium. He then returned exclusively to the Printmaking Workshop. Among his numerous honors are a MacArthur Fellowship (1992) and lifetime achievement awards from Skowhegan (1987) and the College Art Association (2000). Blackburn died at the age of 82 on April 21, 2003 in New York.... Read full biography
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Art Method
- •Easel Painting
- •Graphic Design, Printmaking, Lithography, Etching, Woodblocks
Art Media
Art School
- •Art Students League of New York, Student
- •Atelier 17, Stanley Hayter Workshop, Student
- •Columbia University Art Department, Teacher
- •Cooper Union Art School, Cooper School of Design, Teacher
- •Harlem Community Art Center
- •New School For Social Research (The New School), Teacher
- •School of Visual Arts, New York, Teacher
- •Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Student
Awards/Recognition
- •John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship
- •John Hay Whitney Fellowship
Chronology
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Added Description
- •Art Educator:Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing
- •Printmaking Specialty
Ethnicity of Artist
- •Black, African-American and/or Caribbean
Exhibition of Museum
- •Brooklyn Museum of Art
- •Museum of Fine Arts Boston
- •Whitney Biennial Museum of American Art
Exhibition of Special Group
- •American Negro Exposition, Chicago 1940
Exhibition By An Art School
- •The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts