(Small sketchbook)
Morris Atkinson Blackburn
Mostly very rough figural sketches with some still lives and abstractions that include one notable abstract color study. There is also a short journal entry about a talk he gave at the Pennsylvania Academy on 1/10/58 about sizing in painting as it relates to foreshortening in drawing in which he sites a Roger Van der Weyden painting as an example.
Artist
Date of Birth
(1902-1979)
Date
ca. 1958
Medium
Ink, graphite, conté crayon/charcoal?, watercolor and gouache on paper; 42 pages, 22 with images
Dimensions
10 x 7 in. (25.4 x 17.78 cm.)
Accession #
2007.16.3.33
Credit Line
Bequest of Elizabeth Blackburn in memory of her husband, Morris Blackburn
Copyright
© artist or artist’s estate
Category
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