“Paper Marbling, a True Abstraction,” in American Artist,

“Paper Marbling, a True Abstraction,” in American Artist,

Samuel W. Webb

Feb-62

Samuel W. Webb was a little-known American marbler who began oil-marbling in the early 1960s in Provincetown, Massachusetts. In this article, Webb, who marbles with lithographic ink thinned with turpentine on a gum tragacanth bath, encourages artists to try their hand at the craft. In 1962, Webb donated eighteen papers to the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, New York.

Thomas J. Watson Library, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Purchase, Friends of the Thomas J. Watson Library Gift