About The Artist:
Robert Blackburn
Harlem born artist, teacher, and master printmaker, Robert Blackburn is best known for his pioneering contributions to the development of abstract color lithography. In New York in 1948 he established a cooperative press, the Printmaking Workshop. In the mid-1950s, he traveled and studied in Europe. He collaborated with such artists as Jim Dine, Helen Frankenthaler, Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg from 1959 to 1963 as the first master...
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About The Medium:
Woodcut
A relief process in which the image is cut in a block of wood with tools such as knives, goughers or chisels. The image is inked with a roller, paper is applied to the surface and the back is then rubbed by hand or with a rubbing tool, transferring the image to the paper.