Blueberry Fields are Red Forever

 

Steven Louis Belzman

  1939 - 2019 (biography)

1972  

color woodcut 

12 x 15 7/8" image size 

pencil, lower right 

A/P IX 

pencil titled and editioned 

 

soft fibrous Japanese laid 

published 

artist 

20535 

$400.00 

Like grapevines, the leaves of certain blueberry cultivars change color with the turning of summer to fall. This makes the blueberry fields of Pacific Northwest farms, common in places like the Willamette Valley, Oregon, spectacular against the region's typical grey autumn skies and evergreen trees and shrubs. At the time of this image's creation, Belzman was living in western Oregon while he taught drawing and painting. To depict the blueberry fields around the places he lived, Belzman used a rich red hue against muted greens to emphasize what he saw along the rural roads of western Oregon.