Primary Artist

Charles Blackman (1928–2018)

Title

[Crying children and man].

Date made

1953

Place made

Melbourne Technical College, Naam / Melbourne, Victoria, Australia View on map Close map

Category

Print

Print type

planographic

Technique

lithograph, printed in black ink, from one zinc plate

Text printed from matrix

printed lower right within image, 'CHARLES B [illegible]'

Matrix size

25.0 x 31.4 cm (printed image)

Edition information

no edition known; proofs only?

Production notes

The lithographs that Charles Blackman produced at the Melbourne Technical College (now RMIT University) in 1953 were not editioned and there is no contemporaneous record of their titles. In 1984 Blackman employed Larry Rawling to reproduce a number of these lithographs (9) as photo-screenprints. Virtually the same size as the originals, each was published titled, signed and numbered in an edition of 75. The 1953 and 1984 publications are often conflated. The title assigned to this work is descriptive. [Roger Butler, 27 June 2026]

Subject category

Australia, Art style: Cold War 1947–1991

Country of context

Australia

Legacy id

30946

Creators

Blackman, Charles. | (1928–2018) Australian | Male | artist

Last Updated

27 Jun 2026