Morris Blackburn American, 1902-1979
Orchestration Study, c. 1947
colored pencil on paper
image/sheet: 10 7/8 x 13 7/8"
Orchestration Study is a large graphite and color pencil drawing that is strongly related to Blackburn’s 1947 color screenprint, Orchestration. The idea of music as a subject came from a...
Orchestration Study is a large graphite and color pencil drawing that is strongly related to Blackburn’s 1947 color screenprint, Orchestration. The idea of music as a subject came from a commission Blackburn executed as an advertisement for the Capeheart Radio company. Capehart hired artists to make paintings in response to a musical composition. Blackburn chose Aaron Copeland’s 1944 composition for ballet, Appalachian Spring.
