Mortimer Blake

Who is Mortimer Blake?

Mortimer Blake is an American painter and sculptor.

Blake is a reclusive artist who has turned recently from painting to sculpture as his core medium. Attention has been focused on Blake with the public placement of his piece "Daydream", a large scale recreation of Matisse's boldly formed cut out dancers. A casting of this work is on display at the 35-acre sculpture park Grounds for Sculpture in Hamilton Township, Mercer County, New Jersey and a second casting of the piece is on view at the Key West Customs House in Florida.

When well known sculptor J. Seward Johnson met Blake socially in New York City he invited him to come to the studio and work on some monumental pieces that Blake had described in their conversation. The results of these are, to date, the large Matisse work, and in process is a life-sized two figured work which includes a nude. The third piece in process is a large provocative sculpted work that plays on two well known painters from the past.