Figure by Morris Atkinson Blackburn
Figure
Morris Atkinson Blackburn
Title
Figure
Artist
Morris Atkinson Blackburn
1902 - 1979 (biography)Year
1940
Technique
color pochoir
Image Size
4 7/8 x 3 7/8" image size
Signature
pencil, lower right
Edition Size
variant color proof from an edition of 10
Annotations
dated '40 under the signature; inscribed "Imp." under the title
Reference
Paper
textured cream wove
State
variant proof
Publisher
Inventory ID
JIHE131
Price
$2,000.00
Description
Morris Atkinson Blackburn studied with Modernist painter Arthur B. Carles at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia. it was was here, in the 1930s that he learned and taught serigraphy, a medium that was developed as an art form in the WPA.
In 1940 Morris used an older stencil method, pochoir, to create this cubist, abstracted figure. Pochoir uses cut out shapes which are set onto a sheet of paper and then colored, often with a brush. There is no silk used and, in this case the colors abut one another and do not overlap.
"Figure" was done in a variant edition of 10, each proof was done with different color combinations, making this a monoprint.