Coastal River - Woodblock Reduction Print by Gordon Mortensen Gift and throughout the 20th century

and throughout the 20th century developed a style that combines realism and abstraction with a dash of surrealistic allegory

26 x 40" Unframed Woodcut on Paper

10" X 10" Framed

There she met and later studied intensively with Robert Cormier until she began at the R

9" X 11" Framed

Coastal River - Woodblock Reduction Print by Gordon Mortensen Gift and throughout the 20th century31" x 42" Unframed Woodcut on Paper Gordon Mortensen (b. 1938, American) is one of the best known reduction woodcut print artists working in the U. S today. He works from watercolor studies to understand the color dynamics needed for the woodcut. The artist uses up to sixty four colors and takes as long as three months to create the woodblock image. Although the final outcome has a painterly feel, it is unmistakably a woodcut with rich layered colors