TOM LEO BLACKWELL (American, b. 1938). Red Light, 1975. Acrylic on canvas. 42 x 62 inches (106.7 x 157.5 cm). Signed, ti...

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TOM LEO BLACKWELL (American, b. 1938)
Red Light, 1975
Acrylic on canvas
42 x 62 inches (106.7 x 157.5 cm)
Signed, titled, and dated verso: "Red Light" / Tom Blackwell '75

Property of a Distinguished Gentleman

PROVENANCE:
Private collection, Switzerland;
Christie's, New York, May 6, 1997, lot 61;
Acquired by the present owner from the above.

EXHIBITED:
Flint Institute of Art, Flint, Michigan, "Art and the Automobile," January-March, 1978, no. 18;
State University of Potsdam, Brainerd Hall Gallery, Postdam, New York, "Landscape-Cityscape," September-October 1978;
The Museum of Modern Art, Toyama, Japan, "Toyoma Now '81," 1981;
Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, "Rebounding Surface," August-September 1982.

LITERATURE:
L. Meisel, Photorealism, New York 1980, p. 105, no. 194, illus.


More information about Blackwell, Tom. See also: Thomas Leo Blackwell, Blackwell, Tom Leo Artist.

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