"The Garden" - Reduction Woodcut Print on Paper by Gordon Mortensen Oversized Paul Black

Paul Black

Boston and Maine

Title - Morning Light

Oil on Linen

notes its size in centimeters

"The Garden" - Reduction Woodcut Print on Paper by Gordon Mortensen Oversized Paul Black31 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