Picking Up the Long End by Clayton E. Walker

Picking Up the Long End by Clayton E. Walker

Picking Up the Long End

Clayton E. Walker

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Title

Picking Up the Long End

 
Artist
Year
1959  
Technique
color woodcut 
Image Size
11 1/2 x 32" image size 
Signature
pencil signed, lower right 
Edition Size
12 of 12  
Annotations
pencil titled, dated, and editioned 
Reference
 
Paper
cream laid 
State
published 
Publisher
artist 
Inventory ID
PEME112 
Price
$1,800.00 
Description

An undulating landscape or structure sprawls across the sheet in Clayton Walker’s large format, intricate color woodcut. A common approach in Walker’s woodcuts was the use of saturated, often primary colors, presented in bold swaths like brushstrokes and enmeshed with delicate, kinetic linework. In both his figurative and non representational compositions, movement is inevitable, and in “Picking Up the Long End” he carries the viewer’s eye from end to end and off the sheet, as though the abstract subject is on parade.

A life of constant discovery led Walker from Kentucky to Europe and finally to Southern California, where he built a home that itself served as a massive art project, as well as his studio and personal gallery, for the final forty years of his life. Much like his woodcuts, his home reflected Walker’s unstoppable energy.

 
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