Abe Blashko "A Ninetieth Birthday Celebration"
Susan Teller Gallery
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This retrospective, Abe Blashko, A Ninetieth Birthday Celebration at the Susan Teller Gallery features drawings and prints from 1934 to 2008. A Washington State native, Abe Blashko (born 1920) is largely self-taught. Inspired by the Mexican muralists, he created a body of work reflecting the world and its foibles. At the time of his one-man show at the Seattle Art Museum in 1938 Kenneth Callahan, of the Post Intelligencer, wrote “It is not often that a young artist appears on the horizon of art fully developed, one can almost say, over night. Abe Blashko is just 18 years of age. From several standpoints, his art is remarkable.”
After coming to New York City in 1943 Blashko made a career in illustration. He contributed to The New Masses; he published Saint Mark’s Place, East Village Scenes, in 1995. The drawing Judge Reading, 1937, appeared in The New Yorker magazine, December 22/29, 1997. Blashko taught at the Newark School of Fine and Industrial Art, New Jersey, from 1988 to 1991.In 2000 Blashko was a panelist at the symposium, North American Prints and Printmakers, 1913-1947, at Syracuse University, NY; his work was in featured the related exhibition, as well as the publication, North American Prints, 1913-1947, An Exhibition at Century’s End, 2006.
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from June 03, 2010 to June 26, 2010