"Painted Canyon" - Reduction Woodcut Print on Paper by Gordon Mortensen Egret the Bennington Center for the

the Bennington Center for the Arts and many more

by Jonathan Hotz

whether on the face of a city building or a rural landscape

She managed to sneak in a life drawing class in between science classes at the University of Pennsylvania

20" x 20" Unframed

"Painted Canyon" - Reduction Woodcut Print on Paper by Gordon Mortensen Egret the Bennington Center for the31 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