Blackburn

Artist Ron Adams (American, 1934 - 2020)

Printer The Lawrence Lithography Workshop (American, founded 1979)

Date2002

Medium7 color lithograph on Rives BFK tan paper

DimensionsImage: 25 × 35 inches (63.5 × 88.9 cm)
Sheet: 29 1/2 × 39 inches (74.93 × 99.06 cm)

Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust through the George H. and Elizabeth O. Davis Fund and the Andrew Atterbury and Gwen Prentice Fund

Object number2024.9.1

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DescriptionA Black man pulls a print off a lithographer’s stone on a printing press. He is dressed in a tee shirt and white apron with thin black stripes. He wears glasses and has short white hair that wraps around his head. He turns to the viewer’s right but his attention is focused on the print. He uses his proper left hand to peel the print, while his proper right hand grasps part of the press. The press is in the lower right corner of the print. A table with a small potted tree is on the right edge of the print. Three prints identical to the one on the press hang on the back wall of the space. It is unclear whether they are male or female torsos. A man in a suit and hat leaning on a cane in his proper right hand looks at the prints. In the upper right, a view outside the studio through a window with square panes. In the center of the print, a table with a lithography stone, a sheet of paper, a metal rolling pin, and bottles of liquids.Provenance

Provenance

Purchased from The Lawrence Lithography Workshop (Michael Sims, Master Printer) by The Nelson-Atkins Musuem of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2024.

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