Artist Monograph

Nell Blaine, American

American, 1922–1996

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Medium Breakdown

Medium	Works at MoMA	Share
Other Media	11	78.6%
Drawing	2	14.3%
Lithography	1	7.1%

Production by Decade

4

1940s

7

1950s

3

1960s

Physical Scale

Scale bracket	Works	Share
Small (< 30 cm)	8	57.1%
Medium (30–100 cm)	6	42.9%

Range: 8.0 cm → 45.7 cm (largest side)

Acquisition Timeline

Year acquired	Works
1967	1
1968	1
1989	11

American Contemporaries

Catalogued Works

MoMA — 14 shown

Title	Date	Medium	Dimensions	Department	Credit line
Abstraction (plate, page 1) from Poems Illustrated Book Acc. 147.1989.2	1947-53	Linoleum cut	irreg. composition 8 15/16 x 7" (22.8 x 17.8 cm) sheet 10 1/4 x 8 5/16" (26 x 21.1 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	John B. Turner Fund
Abstraction (plate, page 14) from Poems Illustrated Book Acc. 147.1989.6	1947, published 1953	Linoleum cut	composition (irreg.): 6 x 8" (15.2 x 20.3cm); sheet: 6 1/2 x 8 7/16" (16.5 x 21.5cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	John B. Turner Fund
Front cover from Poems Illustrated Book Acc. 147.1989.10	1947-53	Linoleum cut	irreg. composition 12 x 9" (30.5 x 22.9 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	John B. Turner Fund
Frontispiece (title page verso) from Poems Illustrated Book Acc. 147.1989.1	1947-1953	Linoleum cut	composition 3 1/8 x 2 5/16" (8 x 5.9 cm) sheet 3 1/8 x 2 5/16" (8 x 5.9 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	John B. Turner Fund
Man and Monkey (plate, page 16) from Poems Illustrated Book Acc. 147.1989.7	(1952)	Linoleum cut	irreg. composition 7 7/8 x 5 13/16" (20 x 14.8 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	John B. Turner Fund
Figure in a Garden (plate, page 18) from Poems Illustrated Book Acc. 147.1989.8	(1953)	Linoleum cut	irreg. composition 7 1/16 x 8 7/8" (17.9 x 22.6 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	John B. Turner Fund
Pastoral (tailpiece, page 12) from Poems Illustrated Book Acc. 147.1989.5	(1953)	Linoleum cut	irreg. composition 4 15/16 x 6 3/4" (12.5 x 17.2 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	John B. Turner Fund
Plants (plate, page 6) from Poems Illustrated Book Acc. 147.1989.4	(1953)	Linoleum cut	irreg. composition 11 15/16 x 8 15/16" (30.3 x 22.8 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	John B. Turner Fund
Poems Illustrated Book Acc. 147.1989.1-10	1953. (Prints executed 1947-53).	Illustrated book with ten linoleum cuts	page 12 3/16 x 9 3/8" (30.9 x 23.9 cm) Prints: various dimensions. ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	John B. Turner Fund
Seated Figures (plate, page 4) from Poems Illustrated Book Acc. 147.1989.3	(1953)	Linoleum cut	irreg. composition 5 15/16 x 7 15/16" (15.1 x 20.1 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	John B. Turner Fund
Terrace (plate, page 20) from Poems Illustrated Book Acc. 147.1989.9	(1953)	Linoleum cut	irreg. composition 6 15/16 x 6 15/16" (17.6 x 17.7 cm) sheet 8 1/4 x 8 5/16" (21 x 21.2 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	John B. Turner Fund
In-text plate (folios 95 verso and 96 recto) from In Memory of My Feelings Illustrated Book Acc. 92.1968.41	1967	One from an illustrated book with forty-six lithographs	composition (irreg.): 11 15/16 x 18" (30.4 x 45.7cm); page (two-page spread): 11 15/16 x 17 15/16" (30.4 x 45.6 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of The Museum of Modern Art Department of Publications
Preparatory drawing for In Memory of My Feelings Drawing Acc. 2202.1967.1.a-b	1967	Crayon and ink on two sheets of acetate	sheet (each): 13 3/8 x 9 5/8" (34 x 24.5 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of the artist
Preparatory drawings for In Memory of My Feelings Drawing Acc. 2202.1967.1-98	1967	Ninety-eight drawings	sheet (each): 13 3/8 × 9 5/8" (34 × 24.5 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of the artists