Late Autumn - Woodcut on Paper by Gordon Mortensen Tranquil 36" x 58" Framed

36" x 58" Framed

After a long period of creating trompe l’oeil pieces and designing large scale sets for theater

24" x 48" Unframed

26" x 40" Unframed Woodcut on Paper

Never losing sight of traditional landscape painting

Late Autumn - Woodcut on Paper by Gordon Mortensen Tranquil 36" x 58" Framed31 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