Morris Atkinson Blackburn
American painter and printmaker, 1902–1979
Blackburn was a faculty member at the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art and at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. He was honored in 1928 and 1929 with two Cresson Traveling Scholarships to Europe and with the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in 1952. His work was included in almost every annual exhibition at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts from 1930 to 1968. Morris Blackburn died in Philadelphia in 1979 leaving a legacy to benefit the Scholarship Fund of the School of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
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- artists
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American artist, teacher, and master printmaker, 1920–2003
American painter, illustrator, author, 1895–1976
American illustrator and painter, 1877–1972
American painter, illustrator, 1873–1959
American painter, illustrator, 1852–1911
American sculptor, 1897–1975
Chilean artist, 1927–2020
