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Elizabeth Blackadder

British, 1931

WA-00026259

Falkirk, UK

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MoMA

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DeceasedMoMA· 93%
Primary mediumMoMA· 93%

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MoMA bulk 2026-05-04https://www.moma.org/artists/585
Tier 1 · Institutional92%

About

Why this artist matters now

Elizabeth Blackadder is a British painter and printmaker known for still life and landscape compositions marked by precise observation and luminous color. Working in watercolor, oil, and printmaking techniques including etching and lithography, she constructs intimate domestic and natural scenes with careful attention to light and spatial relationships. Her work emerged in the postwar British art context, where her formal restraint and lyrical sensibility distinguished her from prevailing abstract tendencies of the period.

Source: Moma Bulk 2026 05 04 · Trust score: 92% · Updated 29d ago

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Museum of Modern ArtNew York Tate

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Artworks (9)

Still Life with Pomegranates

1963 · Oil paint on canvas

support: 864 x 1118 mm

Tate

Staithes

1962 · Lithograph on paper

image: 521 x 787 mm

Tate

Roman Wall II - Walltown

1960 · Lithograph on paper

image: 489 x 721 mm

Tate

Dark Hill, Fifeshire

1960 · Lithograph on paper

image: 479 x 667 mm

Tate

Roman Wall I

1960 · Lithograph on paper

image: 537 x 711 mm

Tate

Fifeshire Farm

1960 · Lithograph on paper

image: 476 x 676 mm

Tate

Italian Landscape

1960 · Lithograph on paper

1960 · Lithographic zinc plate for black image

Plate 18 7/8 x 26 7/8" (48.0 x 67.0 cm)

irreg composition 18 7/8 x 26 3/8" (47.9 x 67 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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9 published of 11 catalogued · 8 with image

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Per-Artwork Provenance Chains (top 7)

7 entries · 1 sources

Roman Wall II - Walltown
1960 · Tate · 1 prov
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Still Life with Pomegranates
1963 · Tate · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
Fifeshire Farm
1960 · Tate · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
Roman Wall I
1960 · Tate · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
Dark Hill, Fifeshire
1960 · Tate · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
Italian Landscape
1960 · Tate · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
Staithes
1962 · Tate · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number

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