Author: (Blackburn, Robert).
Title: Robert Blackburn, a Life's Work. Alternative Museum, May 21 Through June 25, 1988. [Exhibition Catalog].
Description: [New York]: Alternative Museum, 1988. 1988. - Quarto, 11 inches high by 8-1/2 inches wide. Softcovers, bound in stapled blue wraps titled in black on the front cover. The covers are slightly rubbed. 24 pages, profusely illustrated in black & white throughout. Near fine. "Acknowledgements" by the exhibition's guest curator Harriett Green are printed on the verso of the front cover. Laid in at the front is a 16-page softcover pamphlet titled "Celebration of Life: Robert Hamilton Blackburn December 10, 1920-April 21, 2003" for a memorial exhibition held in New York at Cooper Union's Great Hall on September 18, 2003. Also laid in is a 3-page biography of the artist by capefearpress. Born in Summit, New Jersey, the son of Jamaican immigrants, Robert Blackburn grew up in Harlem. During his youth, Blackburn was mentored by Harlem Renaissance artists including Charles "Spinky" Alston and Augusta Savage and also studied under Riva Helfond at the WPA Harlem Community Art Center. He also studied lithography with Will Barnet at the Art Students League. Quoting capefearpress's biography "In 1948 in his studio in Chelsea, he started and informal cooperative for experimenting with innovative lithographic techniques; that cooperative would later become the Printmaking Workshop." During his career Blackburn printed lithographs for Larry Rivers, Helen Frankenthaler, and Robert Rauschenberg, among others and taught at numerous institutions including Cooper Union, the Pratt Institute, Columbia University and NYU. Rare in commerce. Very good .

Keywords: ART; ROBERT BLACKBURN, A LIFE'S WORK; ALTERNATIVE MUSEUM; EXHIBITION CAGALOGUE; HARRIETT GREEN; CATALOG; ILLUSTRATED; ILLUSTRATIONS; HARLEM RENAISSANCE; CELEBRATION OF LIFE: ROBERT BLACKBURN DECEMBER 19, 1920-APRIL 21, 2003; MEMORIAL; COOPER UNION GRE


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