ROBERT BLACKBURN

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WORKS 1950s

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Robert Blackburn
Girl in Red, 1950
Lithograph
18 1/4 x 13 1/2
Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division
Photograph by Karl Peterson
Also collection Brooklyn Museum, Dick S. Ramsay Fund

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​Robert Blackburn
Still Life (aka White Jug), c.1950
Lithograph
13 1/2 x 18 1/4
Nelson/Dunks Collection
Photograph by Greg Staley
Also collections:
The Estate of Robert Blackburn and the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, NY
Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division
The David C. Driskell Center, University of Maryland, College Park

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​Robert Blackburn
Red Wine Glass (aka Goblet, Pitcher, Lemon), c.1950
Lithograph
12 ¼ x 17
Nelson/Dunks Collection
Photograph by Greg Staley
Also collections:
The Studio Museum in Harlem, NY
Wes and Missy Cochran, Cochran Collection 

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​Robert Blackburn
Blue Wine Bottle, 1951
Lithograph
14 x 16 1/2
Howard University Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. 
Photograph by Greg Staley

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​Robert Blackburn
Untitled (tree), 1950–1952
Drawing
14 3/4 x 10 3/4
Wes and Missy Cochran, Cochran Collection
Photograph by Ben Arnold
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​Robert Blackburn
Untitled (charcoal), 1950–1952
Drawing
14 1/2 x 19 1/2
Wes and Missy Cochran, Cochran Collection
Photograph by Ben Arnold
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Robert Blackburn
Untitled (ink), 1950–1952
Ink and pencil
15 x 21
Wes and Missy Cochran, Cochran Collection
Photograph by Ben Arnold
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​​Robert Blackburn
Untitled (recorder), c.1952
Watercolor, pencil sketch on verso
10 5/8 x 13 3/4
Wes and Missy Cochran, Cochran Collection
Photograph by Ben Arnold
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​​Robert Blackburn
Untitled (gouache), c.1950
Gouache
23 1/2 x 17 1/2
Wes and Missy Cochran, Cochran Collection
Photograph by Ben Arnold
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Robert Blackburn
Untitled (Rome 1), 1953–1954
Watercolor
10 1/2 x 13 3/4
Nelson/Dunks Collection
Photograph by Greg Staley






















​Robert Blackburn 
Untitled (Rome 2), 1953–1954
Watercolor
9 x 12
Nelson/Dunks Collection
Photograph by Greg Staley

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​Robert Blackburn
Table (aka The Table, Cubist Table), 1957 
Intaglio, some with ink, pencil, and watercolor additions
11 3/4 x 8 3/4 
Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division
Wes and Missy Cochran, Cochran Collection
​The Metropolitian Museum of Art
Photographs by Karl Peterson

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​Robert Blackburn
My Table, c.1956
Lithograph
15 x 11
Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division
Photograph by Karl Peterson

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​Robert Blackburn
Pink Divan, 1958    
Lithograph    
13 x 16
Nelson/Dunks Collection
Photograph by Greg Staley

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​Robert Blackburn
Quiet Instrument, 1958
Lithograph
11 3/4 x 8 3/4 
Edition of 12
Nelson/Dunks Collection
Photograph by Greg Staley
Also collections:
The Estate of Robert Blackburn and the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, NY
Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, Gift of Dave and Reba Williams, 1999
Worcester Art Museum
Wes and Missy Cochran, Cochran Collection  (also variant entitled Odd Ball)

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Robert Blackburn
Interior, 1958
Lithograph
13 1/2 x 9
Edition of 12 
Nelson/Dunks Collection
Photograph by Greg Staley
Also collections:
The Estate of Robert Blackburn and the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, NY
Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division

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Robert Blackburn
Red and Black, 1958
Lithograph
19 x 13 1/2 
Edition of 12
Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division 
Photograph by Karl Peterson

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​Robert Blackburn
Red and Blue, 1958
Lithograph
19 x 13 1/2
Edition 6 of 8
The Estate of Robert Blackburn and the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, NY
Photograph by Phil Sanders

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​Robert Blackburn

Red Pipe (aka Red Pitcher Still Life), 1958
Lithograph
16 1/2 x 21 3/4 
Edition of 10
Wes and Missy Cochran, Cochran Collection
Photograph by Ben Arnold

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​Robert Blackburn
Strange Objects, 1959
Lithograph
15 3/4 x 21 1/2    
Edition of 10
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Gift of the Print Club of Philadelphia, 1960
Photo courtesy the Philadelphia M
useum of Art

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​Robert Blackburn
Lemon & Green Jug, 1959
Lithograph
11 x 14 1/2 
Edition of 12
Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division 
Photograph by Karl Peterson

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Robert Blackburn

A Portrait, 1959
Intaglio
7 x 5
Harmon & Harriet Kelley Collection, San Antonio
Photograph courtesy the Kelley Collection

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​Robert Blackburn

The Instrument, 1959 
Intaglio    
7 3/4 x 8 1/4 
Nelson/Dunks Collection
Photograph by Greg Staley
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