Lorna Blaine Halper
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Lorna Blaine Halper
American, (1924–2012)
Lorna Blaine Halper (1924-2012) was born in the New York City area. While studying art at Columbia University she learned about Black Mountain College. Her parents opposed her attending the school until, Fannie Hillsmith a family friend, was invited to teach in the summer of 1945. Lorna was permitted to enroll in the summer of 1945 and remained at the college through the spring of 1948.
Halper studied art with Josef Albers at Black Mountain College. She developed an approach that combined the principles of Albers’s teachings with her own individualized use of line and. Many of her works include complex drawings that explore the relation between figure and ground. A motif in many of works that of the ""Spiral Man."" Halper began working with the Spiral Man, whose head and face take the form of a spiral, as a young girl and continued to incorporate it into many of her paintings, prints, drawings and sculpture throughout her long career.
At Black Mountain College she studied art with Josef Albers, Fannie Hillsmith, Lyonel Feininger, Robert Motherwell, Jean Varda and Ilya Bolotowsky. Halper became friends with students Ruth Asawa, Ray Johnson, Elaine Schmitt Urbain, Oli Sihvonen and others.
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Drawing
2012.26.114
Drawing
2012.26.118
Drawing
2012.26.119
Drawing
2012.26.121
Drawing
2012.26.126
Drawing
2012.26.127
Drawing
2012.26.128
Drawing ("A portrait to remember")
2012.26.117
Drawing ("Gravity? what's gravity?")
2012.26.124
Drawing ("My how wonderful")
2012.26.120
Drawing ("No - this one is right")
2012.26.115
Drawing ("Now let me explain")
2012.26.123
Drawing ("This government is fine!")
2012.26.125
Drawing ("What's wrong with this government?")
2012.26.122
Drawing on a Newspaper Clipping
2012.26.143.02
Heart Shaped Note from Ray Johnson to Lorna Halper
2012.26.142.02
Letter from Ray Johnson to Lorna Halper
2012.26.130
Letter from Ray Johnson to Lorna Halper (pg. 1 & 2)
2012.26.140.02
Letter from Ray Johnson to Lorna Halper (pg. 3 & 4)
2012.26.140.03
Letter from Ray Johnson to Lorna Halper (pg. 5 & 6)
2012.26.140.04
Letter to Lorna Halper
2012.26.144
Mat
2012.26.026
My Consultants
2012.26.035
Newspaper clipping of Mondrian
2012.26.141.03
Placemat
2012.26.024
Placemat
2012.26.025
Spiral Man
2008.03.12.33
The Emperor Jones watercolor
2012.26.140.06
The Golden Section
2007.27.13.21
Untitled watercolor
2012.26.140.05
Variations
2008.19.01.41
Variations
2008.19.02.41
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