Tonto Creek - Reduction Woodcut Print on Paper by Gordon Mortensen Christmas 19" x 22" Unframed Etching

19" x 22" Unframed Etching on Paper

Susan was always drawn back to her interest in art

Corcoran Gallery

but does do the occasional landscape

Very little is know about this Canadian born artist

Tonto Creek - Reduction Woodcut Print on Paper by Gordon Mortensen Christmas 19" x 22" Unframed Etching34" X 28" 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