The Mirror
Robert Blackburn was a graphic artist, a painter as well as the founder and director of the Printmaking Workshop in New York. His early prints tended toward the figurative, often portraying human forms on abstract backgrounds. He later moved on to creating more abstract works. In "The Mirror," he has painted a collection of objects and conveyed a sense of their reflection through the use of form, shades of light and dark, and texture, presenting an example of how he often used his printmaking to blur the lines between prints and painting.
The Walter O. Evans Collection of African American Art
One of the most important collections of African American visual art dating from the 18th century to the present, the collection includes 62 works from Edward Bannister, Romare Bearden, Elizabeth Catlett, Robert S. Duncanson, Richard Hunt, Jacob Lawrence and others. This collection forms the foundation of a multidisciplinary center for the study, understanding and appreciation of African American art and culture. Items from the collection have previously rotated in the Evans Center Gallery and through unique exhibitions such as the 2012 "Life's Link: A Fred Wilson Installation," and the 2017 travelling exhibition of Jacob Lawrence's work.