ELEANOR RUBIN ART WORK ACQUIRED BY PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART May 2025
OE:NOCTURNE II is one of 12 woodcut prints acquired May 2025 by the Philadelphia Museum of Art. All 12 woodcut prints were created 2002-2003 in my West Newton studio. They are each printed on Japanese paper 20.5" x 17." The prints celebrate the life of composer Hikari Oe and were given to the Philadelphia Museum in honor of Felice Fischer, former curator of Japanese Art at this museum.
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Influence of Ink, Stone and Wood
- One image from the series, "A Season of Changes" welcomes you into this album. Other images from The "Seasons" series follow. A image called "Transformations" is inserted to introduce the notion of text and image entertwined, a continuing theme in much of my work. Two sumi ink drawings in this album were created in August '05 with the 60th anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on my mind. A common characteristic of all the images in this album are the shared influence of Japanese art on my sumi ink drawings, watercolors and woodcuts. NOTE: The link at the top left of each photo album page will take you back to the weblog where you can select another photo album or another post.
Japan: Journey 2006
- These photos give a few glimpses of my 2006 visit to Japan. My visit to an artist's studio in Kyoto where indigo dying was taking place was one highlight of this journey.
Skylit Space
- Many visitors to my studio know the barn behind my house with its weather beaten brown shingles, mural of flying birds, and a stretch of scruffy grass, between house and barn. Since 2002 a second work space at the top of our house has been added. This space is the "Skylit Space" where watercolor, cut paper and other new work emerges. The rugged barn is not forsaken. It too is being updated with snug windows and new barn-red siding. Woodcuts, stencil paintings, etchings emerge from the barn aided by a large French American Tool press that is its centerpiece. NOTE: To leave this album and return to the weblog, click on the link in the grey bar at the top any photo album page. Once back at the weblog you can chose another "Album" or another "Post"
Studio Restored
- During the summers '06-'07 David Rubin lovingly restored this old barn. It was beautiful as a shingled structure but David has prolonged its life, given it a new sheen and made it weather tight so that my stored art work is safe.
June 18, 2025
Screen test for Elly and Joanne Leonard 1941. WE got the part in a film with Marlene Dietrich. Our 15 minutes of fame came early! Here is the screen test..in which you will see us in the arms of Marlene Dietrich and learn the whole story complete with film posters and startling moments of Marlene falling and breaking her ankle
Here is a link to the screen test for Elly and Joanne Leonard. WE got the part and were a baby in the arms of Marlene Dietrich. Ben Rubin recovered the footage from flammable nitrate film..and made a digital copy which can be viewed at: https://vimeo.com/1092564489/466bc71ca1?share=copy
January 24, 2025
TOUCHING FIRE
TOUCHING FIRE (detail) is the image I chose from among my recent watercolors to bring attention to artists in Los Angles who have LOST EVERYTHING in the January 2025 fires in Lost Angeles.
Here are some links to sites that are assisting these artists:
https://www.armoryarts.org/support/fire-relief
https://huntington.org/presidents-message-jan-2025
January 05, 2025
August 11, 2024
May 11, 2024
dimensional music
Detail of image that combines watercolor and paper construction to animate music and make it visible. CLICK on Image to see whole configuration
February 16, 2024
January 12, 2024
Paper Takes Flight in 2024
Cut Paper is one mode of creating flexible and imaginative images. Sometimes my paper constructions are three dimensional. Watch for new post with additional paper figures.