Thursday, June 9, 2022 – PRINTMAKER AND DESIGNER WHOSE WORK INSPIRED MANY
GATHER UP ALL THOSE STRAY PENNIES, NICKELS, DIMES AND QUARTERS.
THE R.I..H.S. WILL BE COLLECTION COINS FOR
PENNIES FOR PRESERVATION
ON
SATURDAY. JUNE 11TH FROM 11 A.M. TO 2P.M.
ON THE BLACKWELL PARK LAWN
DURING ROOSEVELT ISLAND DAY
FROM THE ARCHIVES
THURSDAY, JUNE 9, 2022
THE 697th EDITION
MABEL PUGH
ARTIST
SMITHSONIAN AMERICAN ART MUSEUM
- Mabel Pugh, Near the Rialto, Venice, ca. 1923-1926, linoleum cut on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from the North Carolina Museum of Art (Gift of the artist, 1977), 2020.4.11
- By the twentieth century, Venice offered a vibrant tourist industry that was easy for American visitors to navigate, including single young women. Pugh worked in Venice in 1921 while touring Europe on a scholarship from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, filling her sketchbooks with records of the principal sights. She later converted these designs into linoleum block prints that led to commissions for book and magazine illustrations. These travel images cemented her reputation as an innovative printmaker and designer. In this view of the Rialto Bridge, Pugh includes a young female artist at work on the lower left, presumably inserting herself into the scene.
Mabel Pugh, St. Mark’s, Venice, ca. 1923-1926, linoleum cut on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from the North Carolina Museum of Art (Gift of the artist, 1977), 2020.4.12
Mabel Pugh, Twilight Snow, n.d., linoleum cut on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from the North Carolina Museum of Art (Gift of the artist, 1977), 2020.4.5
Mabel Pugh, Laundry Workers, ca. 1936-1960, monoprint, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from the North Carolina Museum of Art (Gift of the artist, 1977), 2020.4.2
Mabel Pugh, Little Church Around the Corner, ca. 1926-1936, linoleum cut on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Martin Diamond, 1992.110
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COLOR OUR PICTURES.
PICTURES WILL BE DISPLAYED IN THE
RIVERCROSS DISPLAY WINDOW IN JULY
THURSDAY PHOTO OF THE DAY
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WEDNESDAY PHOTO OF THE DAY
A Blackwell Island Prison Stone Quarry.
The product of the island quarries were used by prison laborers to build the Island’s Charity Hospital, Penitentiary, Alms House, Hospital for Incurables, Workhouse, Asylum for the Insane, Lighthouse and other structures. Ed Litcher
Gloria Herman got it
Text by Judith Berdy
Thanks to Bobbie Slonevsky for her dedication to Blackwell’s Almanac and the RIHS
Thanks to Deborah Dorff for maintaining our website
Edited by Deborah Dorff
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Sources
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R.I.H.S. ARCHIVES
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