In the 1940s and 1950s Blauvelt created some eight hundred drawings on loose-leaf notebook paper and found materials. She appropriated imagery from shopping catalogs and illustrated furniture, clothing, and architecture from her everyday life. Blauvelt drew using her own flattened perspective and organized her selections through careful classifications, enhanced by a methodical layering of line.
Gallery label from Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection, April 22, 2009–January 4, 2010.