Wabasca Portage - (Plate 3 from Canadian Series)

 

John Ihle

  1925 - 2002 (biography)

1976  

color collagraph 

15 11/16 x 15 13/16" platemark 

pencil, lower right 

IV/V 

pencil titled, dated, and editioned; inscribed in lower left corner: "Canadian Series 1976 Plate 3" 

North Dakota 53 

cream Arches France wove 

published 

artist 

17882 

$400.00 

John Ihle spent time in Northern Canada in 1969 and began a series of collagraphs in 1970 he titled the "Canadian Series", which he set aside to work with photo etching, and continued through 1976. He added other images into the mid 1980s. Many of the images were printed in small editions, such as this. Ihle was known to sell his plates as "paintings" and further editioning was often not possible. Wabasca, also known as Wabasca-Desmarais, is a hamlet in northern Alberta, Canada, within the Municipal District of Opportunity No. 17. The name Wabasca originates from the Cree word 'wapuskau', meaning "white rapid" the name for the Wabasca River.