Description

This touring exhibition will offer a long-anticipated presentation of the work of the master printer Robert Blackburn.  An African American artist whose mature career began in the late 1930s, Blackburn founded his influential Printmaking Workshop, one of the first non-profit, collaborative print studios, in 1947.  While he was a pivotal mentor to some of the best-known African American artists of the second half of the 20 th century, Blackburn was as eagerly sought by a wide array of leading artists to execute their printed works.  The exhibition will include aprroximately 70 works by Blackburn and artists including Romare Bearden, Jacob Lawrence, Charles White, Jasper Johns, Grace Hartigan, and Robert Rauschenberg.  It will travel to eight venues across the U.S.