Ed Blackburn
Born
1940
Amarillo, TX
Education
1965
1962-63
1962
MA, University of California, Berkeley
Scholarship Program, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
BFA, University of Texas, Austin
Awards
1989-90
1977-78
National Endowment for the Arts - painting grant
National Endowment for the Arts - painting grant
Solo Exhibitions
2001
“The Missing Masterpieces”, University of Nevada at Las Vegas, NV
(catalogue by Dave Hickey)
1998
“Adventures of Eddie Leon”, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, TX
1991
Moody Gallery, Houston, TX
1989
University of Texas at Arlington, TX (catalogue by Jeff Kelly)
1988
University of Texas at El Paso, TX
1986
Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, TX
Arthur Rogers Gallery, New Orleans, LA
Moody Gallery, Houston, TX
Yellowstone Art Center, Billings, MT
1985
Peregrine Press, Dallas, TX
1984
Moody Gallery, Houston, TX
1983
Moody Gallery, Houston, TX
1982
Fort Worth Art Museum and Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX
(catalogue by Susan Freudenheim)
1978
Hansen Gallery, New York, NY
1977
Amarillo Art Center, Amarillo, TX
Macy Gallery, Dallas, TX
1976
Courtney Sale Gallery, Dallas, TX
Group Exhibitions
2006
“As Good As Your Next Gig,” Walter Maciel Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2005
“Space Invaders” University of Texas at Dallas and Eugene Binder Gallery,
Marfa, Texas (catalogue)
“Figuring In”, Community Arts Center, Fort Worth, TX
“Fort Worth Historical Society” Invitational, Fort Worth, TX
2004
“Texas Paint:More True Stories”, Arlington Museum of Art, Arlington TX
2003
“Capital F”, University of Texas at Dallas
“Convention Center Proposals”, Art Council, Fort Worth, TX
“Modern Art Museum 110”, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, TX
Group Exhibitions
(continued)
2001
“Crossing State Lines: Texas Art from the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston,
TX
1999
“San Antonio Collects”, Blue Star, San Antonio, TX 1998 “Bible Stories
and ‘B’ Landscapes”, The Contemporary, Fort Worth, TX
“Visions”, Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, TX
1997
“Odd Realities”, Arlington Museum of Art, Arlington, TX
“Works on Paper”, Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, TX
“Prints from the Huntington Museum”, El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, TX
1996
“First Texas Annual”, The Contemporary, Fort Worth, TX
“The New Spirit”, Huntington Museum , Austin, TX
1995
“Exquisite Corpse”, The Mac, Dallas, TX
“Made in Texas”, Parchman-Stremmel Gallery, San Antonio, TX
1994
“The Big Picture”Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, TX
“Inside Outside”, University of Texas at San Antonio, TX
1993
“Texas Art”, Cheney Cowles Museum, Spokane, WA, Boise Art
Museum, Boise, ID (catalogue)
“Western Myth”, Aspen Museum of Art, Aspen, CO
1992
“Freedom of Expression”, University of Houston, TX
1991
“Creative Partners”, Rice University, Houston, TX
“The State I’m In”, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
“A Sense of Place”, San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX
1990
“The New West”, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, New York, NY
“Direct References”, Glassel School of Art, Houston, TX
“Continuities of Concern”, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
1989
“Blackburn, Geffert, Little, Mims, and Waters -5 Texas Installations”,
Blue Star Art Space, San Antonio, TX, curated by Dave Hickey
“Painted Stories and Other Narratives”, Laguna Gloria Museum, Austin, TX
“It’s About Time”, Trammel Crow Center, Dallas, TX
1988
“Memory”, University of Texas at Arlington, TX “Glass Prints”, Municipal Art
Collection, Coberg, West Germany
1987
“Texas-Berlin Art Exchange”, Amerika Haus, Berlin, Germany
“Luminnous Expressions”, Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC
1986
“New Orleans Triennial”, New Orleans Museum of Art, LA
“Texas Time Machine”, Cullen Center, Houston, TX
“Honky Tonk Visions”, Texas Tech Museum, Lubbock, TX. Traveled to
Laguna Gloria Museum, Austin, TX, Art Museum of South Texas and
the Tyler Museum, Tyler, TX (catalogue)
“Seven Texas Artists”, Amerika Haus, Berlin, Germany
1985
“Recent Prints”, Peregrine Press, Dallas, TX
“Ed Blackburn, Linda Blackburn, Jim Woodson”, University of Texas at
Arlington, TX
“Texas Currents Part I”, San Antonio Art Institute, San Antonio, TX
(catalogue)
“The Crescent Collection”, The Crescent Hotel, Dallas, TX (catalogue)
Group Exhibitions
(continued)
1984
“Texas On My Mind”, Art Train curated by Becky Duval Reese (catalogue)
“Texas Artists in Houston Corporate Collections”, Diverse Works, Houston,
TX
“Gateway Gallery”, Dallas Museum of Art, TX
1983
“A Partial Look: Selected works from the Atlantic Richfield Collection”, Art
Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX
“Fact or Fiction: New Work by James Surles, Roy Fridge, Ed Blackburn and
Vernon Fisher”, Aspen Center for the Visual Arts, Aspen, CO
(catalogue)
“Images of Texas”, Huntington Museum of Art, Austin, TX (catalogue)
“38th Corcoran Biennial/2nd Western States Exhibition”, Corcoran Gallery of
Art, Washington, DC. Traveled to Lakeview Museum of the Arts and
Sciences, Peoria, IL, Scottsdale Center for the Arts, AZ, Albuquerque
Museum of Art, NM, Brooklyn Museum of Art, NY, Long Beach
Museum, CA, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
“American Still Life 1945-1983”, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX.
Traveled to Albright Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY, Columbus Museum of
Art, Columbus, OH, Neuberger Museum, NY, Portland Museum of
Art, Portland, OR (catalogue)
1981
“Off the Wall”, San Antonio Museum of Art, TX (catalogue)
“The Road Show”, Two Houston Center, Houston TX (catalogue)
“10th Anniversary Exhibition”, Tyler Museum of Art, Tyler, TX
1980
“Response”,Tyler Museum of Art, Tyler, TX (catalogue)
1979
“Fire”, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX (catalogue)
“Larger Canvas II”, Houston National Bank billboard project (catalogue)
“Made in Texas”, Huntington Museum, Austin, TX (catalogue)
1978
“Spirit of Texas”, Renaissance Society, University of Chicago and Koehler
Art Center, Sheboygan, WS
“Chandelier”, Delehunty Gallery, Dallas, TX. Installation with Vernon Fisher,
and James Malone
“Corsicana Panorama”, Corsicana, TX. Installation with Vernon Fisher and
James Malone
1976
“Extra Landscapes”, Tyler Museum of Art, Tyler, TX
“The Great American Rodeo”, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
(catalogue)
1973
“Eight Texas Artists”, Gallery Simone Stern, New Orleans, LA
1972
“Project South by Southwest”, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, TX
1968
“Ed Blackburn, Linda Blackburn”, Masur Museum, Monroe, LA
1967
“Four Artists”, Midwestern Museum, Wichita Falls, TX
1962
“Six Artists”, Jackson Street Gallery, Amarillo, TX
Public and Private Commissions
2003
Designed floor medallion for DFW Airport International Terminal
1995
8.0 Club mural 9x20 ft., Fort Worth, TX
1995
Large painting purchased for Visitors Bureau, Fort Worth, TX
1984
2 large paintings commissioned by Arco Oil, Dallas, TX
1979
Larger Canvas II, Houston - artist designed billboards
1979
Designed North Texas Watertower- private ranch
1978
Buford Commuications mural, Tyler, TX
1978
“Corsicana Panorama” multimedia installation, Corsicana, TX
1976
Commissioned lobby painting, Fort Worth National Bank
1974
USAA Insurance, 30 ft. mural, San Antonio, TX
Collections
Amarillo Art Museum, TX
American Airlines, Dallas/Fort Worth, TX
Atlantic Richfield, Dallas, TX
Belo Corporation, Dallas, TX
Buford Television, Tyler, TX Houston Museum of Fine Art, TX
Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, NY and TX
Convention/Visitors Bureau, Ft. Worth, TX
Crescent Collection, Dallas, TX
Dallas Museum of Art, TX
El Paso Museum of Art, TX
Hilton Hotels, Dallas and Fort Worth, TX
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
Lincoln Properties, Fort Worth, TX
Longview Museum of Fine Arts, TX
Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, TX
Neiman Marcus, Houston, TX
Republic Bank, Houston, TX
San Antonio Museum of Art, TX
Texas Gas Exploration, Houston, TX
Texas Tech Museum, Lubbock, TX
Tyler Museum of Art, TX
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
USAA Insurance, San Antonio, TX
Bibliography
Mitchell, Charles Dee, “Fail Fail Again” Dallas Morning News, April 14, 2003
Hickey, Dave “The Adventures of Eddie Leon”, catalogue essay, Jan. 2001
Donna Beam Gallery, University of Nevada at Las Vegas
Roosa, Wayne “Both Edges at Once: Ed Blackburn’s Bible Paintings”, Image magazine
summer 2000 #27
Little, Ken “Ray Madison -Ed and Linda Blackburn”, Art Lies, Winter 1998
Rose, Cynthia “Elvis Art”, London Times, Dec. 5, 1992
Mitchell, Charles Dee, review “Ed Blackburn, University of Texas at Arlington” Artforum,
Jan. 1990, p.148
Gambrell, Jamey “Texas State of the Art”, Art in America, Mar.1987 p.127
Carlozzi, Annette “50 Texas Artists”, Chronicle Books 1986 p.24
Block, Gay “Contemporary Texas Portraits”, Texas Monthly Publisher 1985
Kutner, Janet “New Editions: Prints”, Art News, Mar 1985 p.69,70
Freudenheim, Susan review at Moody Gallery, Houston, Art in America , Jan.1985
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Freudenheim, Susan “Ed Blackburn’s Moving Pictures”, Texas Homes, Sept. 1984
p.22-23
Peterson, William “Fact and Fiction at the Aspen Center for the Visual Arts”, Artspace,
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Kelly, Jeff “Bible Paintings” catalogue essay, University of Texas at Arlington, TX 1989
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p.29
Ennis, Michael “Another Roadside Attraction”, Texas Monthly, Sept.1979 p.186-189
Rifkin, Ned “Art in Private Places-the Buford Project”, Artweek Jan. 27, 1979
Marvel, Bill “Dazzling Illusions Float Like a Dream in Loft Panorama”, Dallas Times
Herald, April 2, 1978
Frank, Peter “Out of Character and Power for the Count”, Village Voice, Jan.23, 1978
p.65
Nuckols, Carol “Artists Images Goin g to NY”, Fort Worth Star Telegram, Dec. 18, 1977
p.8-1
Kutner, Janet “Dallas: Current events in red, yellow and blue”, Art News, Dec. 1976
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Corbett, Joanne “Texas Artists - Stern Gallery” Figaro, New Orleans Nov. 14, 1975