Autumn Moon

 

Barbara L. Johnson

  1927 - 2021 (biography)

1979  

color woodcut and pastel 

11 5/8 x 13 3/16" image size 

pencil, lower right 

1 of 1  

pencil titled and editioned; accompanying label gives the mediums used 

 

textured cream wove 

published 

artist 

24685 

$400.00 

Barbara Johnson's warm composition appears to depict a large moon rising at the apex of a long, thin bridge that spans a wide river. At the time of this work's creation she was living in Japan, where her husband was stationed as a U.S. Fishery attache, and she was immersed in a culture that continued to inspire her long after her return to California. In order to capture the autumnal orange and red, Johnson first printed a gray-green hue, then layered the fiery, semi-transparent inks over it, muting the colors that were rolled onto deeply grained wood.