Frick Park by Gordon Louis Mortensen

Frick Park by Gordon Louis Mortensen

Frick Park

Gordon Louis Mortensen

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Title

Frick Park

 
Artist
Year
2009  
Technique
color reduction woodcut, printed in 39 colors with 34 press runs 
Image Size
20 x 15" image 
Signature
pencil, lower right 
Edition Size
85 of 110  
Annotations
pencil titled, dated, editioned, and copyrighted 
Reference
 
Paper
white Arches 88 wove 
State
published 
Publisher
artist 
Inventory ID
GOMO271 
Price
$500.00 
Description

The largest of Pittsburgh's regional parks at 561 acres, Frick Park is also the youngest. Although Henry Clay Frick bequeathed the original 151 acres to the city in 1919, the park did not open until 1927 after additional land had been acquired. Most recently, 106 acres were annexed to the park as part of the process that created the Summerset at Frick Park housing development and restored the Nine Mile Run stream valley. Now Frick Park stretches from its northern borders in Point Breeze down to the Monongahela River.

Gordon Mortensen commented on the process he uses:

"Only one woodblock is used. On it, an image is drawn in India ink. Before the first color is printed, any areas that are to remain unprinted (white or the color of the paper) are cut away from the surface of the block. Then an oil-base ink is used to print the first color on all of the sheets of paper that are to be used for the edition and proofs.

After the first printing, the block is again cut, removing any surface of the block that is to remain the first color in the finished print. After each subsequent color is printed, the block is cut, the process continues until the print is finished and most of the surface of the block is cut away."

 

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