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<p>Born and raised in Texas, Kathleen Blackshear moved to Chicago to attend SAIC in 1924. She was hired to teach art history under Helen Gardner’s direction in 1926, the same year Gardner published the first edition of her groundbreaking art-history survey <em>Art through the Ages</em>—the first textbook of its kind to cover non-Western art. Throughout her 35 years as a faculty member of SAIC, Blackshear encouraged trips to the Field Museum of Natural History and the Oriental Institute, emphasizing the importance of giving academic and artistic credit to non-Western art.</p>
Catalogue
- Year
- 1917
- Dimensions
- Image/plate: 12.8 × 17.6 cm (5 1/16 × 6 15/16 in.); Sheet: 22.6 × 17.1 cm (8 15/16 × 6 3/4 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- Kathleen Blackshear
Artist
Painting
Kathleen Blackshear (1897–1988) was an American Modernist artist known for her sensitive depictions of African-American subjects.
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Ruby Lee - print #8 of 52 in the 1936 Calendar of The Chicago Society of Artists
1936 · Relief print in black on cream wove (simili Japan) paper
Baptism - print #6 of 52 in the 1936 Calendar of The Chicago Society of Artists
1936 · Relief print in black on cream wove (simili Japan) paper
A Boy Named Alligator
1930 · Oil on canvas
Portrait of Richard
1917 · Lithograph in black on cream wove paper
Record
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- Kathleen Blackshear
- Year
- 1917
- Dimensions
- Image/plate: 12.8 × 17.6 cm (5 1/16 × 6 15/16 in.); Sheet: 22.6 × 17.1 cm (8 15/16 × 6 3/4 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1917-136105
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified