BLACKWELL, TOM
1938 Chicago - 2020 Rhinebeck, NY/USA
Title: "Sequined Mannequins".
Date: 1985.
Technique: Oil on canvas.
Measurement: 152 x 200cm.
Notation: Signed, dated and titled verso upper left: Tom Blackwell '85 "SEQUINED MANNEQUINS".
Frame/Pedestal: Framed.
Provenance:
- Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York (label)
- Private collection USA
- Glenn Golenberg Collection, California
- Private collection New York
Exhibitions:
- Kunsthalle Tübingen, 2012/13
- Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid 2013
- Saarland Museum, Saarbrücken 2013
- Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, 2014
- Museo de Bellas Artes, Bilbao 2014/15
- Kumu Art Museum of Estonia, Tallinn 2016
- Musee d'Ixelles, Brussels 2016
- Osthaus Museum, Hagen 2016/17
- Kunsthal Rotterdam, 2017
- Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL/USA 2017
- The Artist Book Foundation at MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA/USA, 2018
- Herbert Johnson Museum at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY/USA, 2019
Literature:
- Louis K. Meisel: Photorealism Since 1980, New York 1993, cat. no. 227, p. 88, ill.
- Letze, Otto (ed.): 50 Years of Hyperrealistic Painting. Ostfildern 2012, p. 58, ill.
- Letze, Otto (ed.): Hyper Realisme 50 Jaar Schilderkunst, Zwolle 2017, pp. 46/47, ill.
- Prominent American photorealist of the first generation
- Complex intersections of spatial structures on a large format with subtle play of light and shadow
- Outstanding exhibition history with major international institutions.
