Fall - Woodblock Reduction Print by Gordon Mortensen Sea Scape as he told The Providence

as he told The Providence Journal shortly before his death

21 x 28" Unframed Woodcut on Paper

Framed 25" X 31"

and allows each color to optically-saturate the canvas

11" x 15" Unframed

Fall - Woodblock Reduction Print by Gordon Mortensen Sea Scape as he told The Providence22" x 30" 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