M24368: Sunday Afternoon
Prints
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- M24368
- People
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Robert Blackburn, American (Summit, NJ 1920 - 2003)
- Title
- Sunday Afternoon
- Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- 2000
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/187020
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Spitbite and aquatint on handmade paper
- Technique
- Spitbite etching
- Dimensions
- plate: 45.5 x 38 cm (17 15/16 x 14 15/16 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: yes, lower margin, graphite, handwritten, signed, in artist's hand: 9/75 SUNDAY AFTERNOON Robert Blackburn 2,000
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Sarah-Ann and Werner H. Kramarsky, New York, New York, gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, March 14, 2000.
State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
- Edition
- Dieu Donné Editions Club #1
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Sarah-Ann and Werner H. Kramarsky
- Copyright
- © The Estate of Robert Blackburn. Used with Permission.
- Accession Year
- 2000
- Object Number
- M24368
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Commentary
- This print shows Blackburn working in collaboration with another sort of artist's shop, a custom handmade paper mill. The composition, a strong and sensuous abstraction, still betrays Blackburn's lifetime commitment to European modernism as practiced in Paris in the 1940s and '50s and transformed in the United States by such American artists as Rothko, Gottlieb, and Nevelson. The print is the first production of the Dieu Donné Editions Club. The club is, presumably, both a fund-raising and public-awareness-raising effort on the part of the DieuDonné Papermill, Inc., a longtime supporter of artists' efforts to incorporate papermaking into their creations. There are original works from the papermill by Emiko Kasahara and Amanda Guest in the collection.
Verification Level
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