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Blackwell's paintings are in many prestigious museum collections, including the [[Art Museum of Southeast Texas]], the Museum of Modern Art<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Art and Artists|url=https://www.moma.org/artists/587|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=June 5, 2020|website=Museum of Modern Art}}</ref>, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum<ref>{{Cite web|last=Buoys|first=Gabriel|date=February 6, 2012|title=Visitors Look at "Little Roy's Gold Wing"|url=https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/visitors-look-at-little-roys-gold-wing-by-us-artist-tom-news-photo/138339323|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=June 5, 2020|website=Getty Images}}</ref>, and the Parrish Art Museum<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=November 11, 2018|title=Picture (Recent Acquisitions)|url=https://parrishart.org/exhibitions/picture/|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=June 5, 2020|website=Parrish Art Museum}}</ref>, amongst others.<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=January 15, 2020|title=Tom Blackwell - Biography|url=https://www.meiselgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Blackwell-Tom-web.pdf|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=June 5, 2020|website=Louis K. Meisel Gallery}}</ref>
Blackwell's paintings are in many prestigious museum collections, including the [[Art Museum of Southeast Texas]], the Museum of Modern Art<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Art and Artists|url=https://www.moma.org/artists/587|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=June 5, 2020|website=Museum of Modern Art}}</ref>, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum<ref>{{Cite web|last=Buoys|first=Gabriel|date=February 6, 2012|title=Visitors Look at "Little Roy's Gold Wing"|url=https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/visitors-look-at-little-roys-gold-wing-by-us-artist-tom-news-photo/138339323|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=June 5, 2020|website=Getty Images}}</ref>, and the Parrish Art Museum<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=November 11, 2018|title=Picture (Recent Acquisitions)|url=https://parrishart.org/exhibitions/picture/|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=June 5, 2020|website=Parrish Art Museum}}</ref>, amongst others.<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=January 15, 2020|title=Tom Blackwell - Biography|url=https://www.meiselgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Blackwell-Tom-web.pdf|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=June 5, 2020|website=Louis K. Meisel Gallery}}</ref>


Blackwell died on April 8th due to complications from COVID-19.<ref name=":0">{{cite web |last1=Martelli |first1=A. J. |title=Coronavirus claims life of Tom Blackwell, Rhinebeck artist |url=https://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/story/news/2020/04/11/coronavirus-tom-blackwell-influential-rhinebeck-artist-dies/2976795001/ |website=Poughkeepsie Journal}}</ref>
Blackwell died on April 8th due to complications from COVID-19. He was 82 years old.<ref name=":0">{{cite web |last1=Martelli |first1=A. J. |title=Coronavirus claims life of Tom Blackwell, Rhinebeck artist |url=https://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/story/news/2020/04/11/coronavirus-tom-blackwell-influential-rhinebeck-artist-dies/2976795001/ |website=Poughkeepsie Journal}}</ref>


==References==
==References==

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For other people named Thomas or Tom Blackwell, see Thomas Blackwell (disambiguation).

Thomas Leo "Tom" Blackwell (born 1938 in Chicago, Illinois; died 2020 in Poughkeepsie, New York)[1] was an American hyperrealist of the original first generation of Photorealists, represented by Louis K. Meisel Gallery. Blackwell is one of the Photorealists most associated with the style. Blackwell has produced a significant body of work based on the motorcycle, as well as other vehicles including airplanes.[2] In the 1980s, Blackwell also began to produce a body of work focused on storefront windows, replete with reflections and mannequins.[3] By 2012, Blackwell had produced 153 Photorealist works.[3]

Blackwell started out his career as an abstract-expressionist, but was moved to try his hand at the Pop art movement of the 1960s.[4] It was with his Post-Pop paintings that Blackwell garnered early success; in 1969, his painting "Gook", which was a reaction to the horrors of the Vietnam War, was included in "Human Concern Personal Torment" at the Whitney Museum of American Art.[5] As the artist recounted for the Currier Museum in 2015, "[i]n the late 1960s, I was still finding my voice as an artist. At that point, I was doing Post-Pop paintings, combining imagery from photo-derived sources. One of these included a section of chrome tailpipes, and as I worked on this painting I realized that the rest of the imagery felt extraneous."[6]

By the 1970s, Blackwell had abandoned his earlier Pop sensibilities and was painting in the newly emerging Photorealist style.[7] His early large-scale paintings of motorcycles and engines, highlighted reflective chrome surfaces.[8] His later works continued to build upon this series, and expanded to include a series of storefront windows scenes, which capture layered imagery reflecting from the glass.[9]

Blackwell's paintings are in many prestigious museum collections, including the Art Museum of Southeast Texas, the Museum of Modern Art[10], the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum[11], and the Parrish Art Museum[12], amongst others.[13]

Blackwell died on April 8th due to complications from COVID-19. He was 82 years old.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b Martelli, A. J. "Coronavirus claims life of Tom Blackwell, Rhinebeck artist". Poughkeepsie Journal.
  2. ^ Photo-realism by Louis K. Meisel. Harry N. Abrams, New York, NY (1980).
  3. ^ a b Meisel, Louis (2013). Photorealism in the Digital Age. New York: Abrams. p. 19. ISBN 978-1-4197-0828-2.
  4. ^ Smart, Paul (April 16, 2020). "Renowned Photorealist Painter Tom Blackwell Dies from Complications of Covid-19". Hudson Valley One. Retrieved June 5, 2020.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  5. ^ "Tom Blackwell, pioneering Photorealist painter, dies at 82". ArtDaily. April 14, 2020. Retrieved June 5, 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  6. ^ Blackwell, Tom (January 24, 2015). "Tom Blackwell's Photorealism: Making a Masterpiece". Currier Museum of Art. Retrieved June 5, 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  7. ^ Meisel, Louis (1980). Photorealism. New York: Harry N. Abrams. p. 83. ISBN 0-8109-1464-6.
  8. ^ Meisel, Louis (1980). Photorealism. New York: Harry N. Abrams. p. 84. ISBN 0-8109-1464-6.
  9. ^ Tom Blackwell - Artist, Art - Tom Leo Blackwell
  10. ^ "Art and Artists". Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved June 5, 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  11. ^ Buoys, Gabriel (February 6, 2012). "Visitors Look at "Little Roy's Gold Wing"". Getty Images. Retrieved June 5, 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  12. ^ "Picture (Recent Acquisitions)". Parrish Art Museum. November 11, 2018. Retrieved June 5, 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  13. ^ "Tom Blackwell - Biography" (PDF). Louis K. Meisel Gallery. January 15, 2020. Retrieved June 5, 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)


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