"Southwest Desert" - Reduction Woodcut Print on Paper by Gordon Mortensen cf-vendor-andersonr 28" X 38" Framed

28" X 38" Framed

from the rugged coast of Maine to the verdant marshes of the North Shore of Boston

David Kasman

15" x 10" Framed

5" Warm Silver

"Southwest Desert" - Reduction Woodcut Print on Paper by Gordon Mortensen cf-vendor-andersonr 28" X 38" Framed26 x 34" 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