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Erickson’s art has been represented in more than twenty-five regional and national shows and international traveling exhibits. The United States State Department included Blockhouse textiles in international exhibitions that toured in Europe and Israel during the nineteen-fifties. She also
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Erickson was founding partner, chief designer, and head of production of the Blockhouse of Boston, where she was credited with producing ninety percent of the organization’s designs. For her work she became the second young Boston artist chosen for recognition by the Institute of
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Blockhouse artisans designed and produced original textiles including draperies, wall hangings, table linens, costume treatments and other art. The co-op specialized in linoleum blockprints — also known as linocuts — and screen printing. Blockhouse was noted for bold modernism as well as
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Massachusetts College of Art in 1947. Doub married Evarts Erickson, with whom she had five children, and adopted the name Janet Doub Erickson. In the 1950s the couple moved to Mexico and lived for several years on a fellowship from
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Erickson was notable for pioneering the practice of jumping on linoleum and wood blocks to make the ink stick deeper into her textiles. For this innovation Gjon Mili profiled and photographed her for the newsweekly
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Her prints, drawings, and paintings have been purchased for the permanent collections of the
Wadsworth Atheneum, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and the Saudi Arabian Royal Commission for Jubail and Yanbu.
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Roche, Mary (November 6, 1948). "On and Off the Avenue".
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Lares & Penates, 1950 (linocut), Janet Doub Erickson
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