Meadows Beach - Unframed Woodcut on Paper by Gordon Mortensen Nantucket 14" x 17" Unframed Etching

14" x 17" Unframed Etching on Paper

often en plein air

17" x 20" Unframed Etching on Paper

I try to bring this dance to each painting

19" X 26" Unframed Woodcut on Paper

Meadows Beach - Unframed Woodcut on Paper by Gordon Mortensen Nantucket 14" x 17" Unframed Etching26 x 40" 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