Harvard Art Museums > M24368: Sunday Afternoon Prints Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Sunday Afternoon (Robert Blackburn) , M24368,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Apr 25, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/187020. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number M24368 People Robert Blackburn, American (Summit, NJ 1920 - 2003) Title Sunday Afternoon Classification Prints Work Type print 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 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 The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. 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 This record was created from historic documentation and may not have been reviewed by a curator; it may be inaccurate or incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of Modern and Contemporary Art at am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
