Self-Portrait XIII

Roy W. Ragle

Roy Ragle had a successful career exhibiting his astonishingly detailed and very large woodcut portraits, this self portrait was done in 1973, his 29th year. Ragle's work was mostly sold or donated to public collections around the country and were seldom sold in the retail market.

His work was often mistakenly labelled as a lithograph or etching in exhibitions because no one believed that his fluid, spidery line work could come from the rigid woodcut form.

This print is printed relief, meaning that the white areas were cut away and the remaining surface lines were inked and printed, both of which involved great care, concentration and skill.