The Cochran Collection

Will Barnet & Bob Blackburn — An Artistic Friendship in Relief


In many respects, the friendship of Will Barnet and Bob Blackburn fits within the scheme of other friendships in the arts: ships on parallel journeys that occasionally intersect, slow down, dock in the same ports, and then they proceed on their separate courses. Their relationship is layered and complex, best embodied in terms of their parallel courses and artistic interaction. What Barnet and Blackburn share in their compositional predilections is a love of the two-dimensional space and its flatness as well as the frontal attack. The prints in the Cochran Collection accurately represent the evolution of the two artists' careers as printmakers.


Barbara Lekatsas
Hostra University. New York
1996

Works by Will Barnet

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Serial Date Title Dimensions Media Edition
1 1935 Cotton Pickers 9-7/8 x 11-3/4 x 1 Inches Aquatint/Etching
2 1935 Little Joe 16-1/8 x 9-3/4 x 1 Inches Lithograph
3 1936 Gladys 14-1/2 x 10 x 1 Inches Lithograph
4 1936 Norwalk 9-7/8 x 11-3/4 x 1 Inches Aquatint/Etching
5 1936 Air in the City No. I 9-7/8 x 6-7/8 x 1 Inches Aquatint/Etching
6 1938 The Book 9-7/8 x 7 x 1 Inches Aquatint/Etching
7 1939 Early Morning 9 x 15-3/8 x 1 Inches Woodcut
8 1940 Slumber 8-7/8 x 11-3/4 x 1 Inches Lift Ground Aquatint
9 1947 Go-go 12 x 9-5/8 x 1 Inches Serigraph
10 1948 Guinea Hens 7-3/8 x 9-5/8 x 1 Inches Etching/Drypoint
11 1951 The Swing 15 x 19-1/2 x 1 Inches Lithograph
12 1952 Summer or Repose 12-3/4 x 16 1/2 x 1 Inches Color Lithograph
13 1952 Fine Friends 25 x 18-3/4 x 1 Inches Lithograph
14 1956 The Cat 13 x 21-3/4 Inches Inches Color Lithograph
15 1957 Call it Winter 35-3/4 x 27-1/4 Inches Color Lithograph
16 1958 Wine Women and Song 31-1/2 x 16-1/2 Inches Color Linoleum Cut
17 1970 Woman Reading 35-3/4 x 27-1/4 Inches Color Serigraph
18 1971 Blue Robe 12-1/4 x 13-1/4 Inches Color Aquatint
19 1972 Introspection 29-1/2 x 35 Inches Color Serigraph
20 1975 Seventh Season 36 x 27-1/2 Inches Color Serigraph 5/300
21 1980 Circe II 32-1/4 x 32-1/4 Inches Color Serigraph
22 1981 Way to the Sea 40 x 30 Inches Lithograph
23 1981 The Bannister 32-1/2 x 25-1/4 Inches Lithograph
24 1982 Woman Reclining 29-3/4 x 38 Inches Color Serigraph 72/300

Works by Bob Blackburn

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Serial Date Title Dimensions Media Edition
1 1955 Untitled (Nude) 19 x 24-1/2 Inches Lithograph
2 1958 Red Pitcher Still Life 16-1/2 x 21-1/2 Inches Lithograph
3 1958 Untitled 28-1/4 x 25-3/4 Inches Charcoal Drawing
4 1958 Quiet Instrument Odd Ball 16-1/4 x 22-3/4 Inches Lithograph
5 1959 Table 16-1/4 x 19-1/2 Inches Etching
6 1960 Color Symphony 30-1/2 x 25-3/4 Inches Lithograph
7 1960 Heavy Forms 28-1/4 x 25-3/4 Inches Lithograph
8 1960 Faux Pas 19 x 24-1/2 Inches Lithograph
9 1961 Heavy Forms 2nd State 15-3/4 x 19-3/4 Inches Lithograph
10 1962 Yellow on Red 23-3/4 x 18-1/2 Inches Lithograph
11 1963 Grey Wood 17-1/2 x 26-1/2 Inches Lithograph
12 1963 Windowed Shapes 17-3/4 x 26-1/2 Inches Lithograph
13 1963 Sun-Moon 17-3/8 x 21-1/4 Inches Lithograph
14 1967 The Gem 12 x 7-1/2 Inches Lithograph
15 1967 Easter Print 14 x 14-1/2 Inches Lithograph
16 1971 Broken Stone II 7-3/4 x 5-1/2 Inches Lithograph
17 1975 Curly Q 8 x 7-3/4 Inches Lithograph Handcolored
18 1984 Modern Times 11-1/4 x 11-1/4 Inches Woodcut
19 1988 Stockholm 16-1/4 x 20 Inches Lithograph
20 ND Sunburst 20 x 36 Inches Woodcut
21 ND Head in Wash 16 x 12 Inches Lithograph
22 ND Blue Window 17-3/4 x 26-1/4 Inches Lithograph
23 ND The Mirror (Reflections) 18-1/2 x 23-3/4 Inches Lithograph
24 ND Root Toot 23-3/4 x 17-1/8 Inches Lithograph
25 ND Germination Varient 6-7/8 x 10-3/4 Lithograph
26 ND Untitled 36-1/4 x 29 Inches Lithograph
Works of Art Photos by G. Ray Sullivan, Jr.