International Block Print Renaissance Pencils Cobalt Blue

Cobalt Blue

and the Black community

Albert Pinkham Ryder

one of the most important artists from the American early modern period

both on American farms and in its artists’ studios

International Block Print Renaissance Pencils Cobalt BlueThe International Block Print Renaissance began in the last decades of the 19th century in Europe, as artists and collectors rediscovered the block print medium. Wichita played a major role in expanding this renaissance throughout America. In 1922, the newly assembled Wichita Art Association presented American Block Print Makers as one of its first exhibitions. The exhibition inaugurated a century long relationship between Wichita and prints.