Game Creek Bridge by Norma Bassett Hall

Game Creek Bridge by Norma Bassett Hall

Game Creek Bridge

Norma Bassett Hall

Title

Game Creek Bridge

 
Artist

Norma Bassett Hall

  1888 - 1957 (biography)
Year
1944 -'46 
Technique
color serigraph (screenprint) 
Image Size
11 1/16 x 14 1/16" image 
Signature
pencil signed, lower right; monogrammed in screen, lower left 
Edition Size
unnumbered, from a total edition of 160, from 2 color combinations. 
Annotations
pencil titled 
Reference
Patterson pg. 150, cat. 77; illustrated pg. 116 
Paper
Van Gelder wove paper 
State
published 
Publisher
artist 
Inventory ID
8106 
Price
SOLD
Description

This screenprint was done in the mid 1940s to simulate Hall's earlier work with color woodcut. She was able to find more papers to print on than the Japanese papers she used for her woodcuts, which had become hard to find during the war. She worked with WPA Santa Fe printmaker Louie Ewing to perfect her techniques.

Though done in Santa Fe the artist refers back to her time in Kansas for her subject, in this case "Game Creek Bridge" in Elk County, Kansas a 37 foot stone arch bridge which was built in 1908 and bypassed in 1992.

The entry for this work, number 77, in the catalog raisonné by Joby Patterson notes:

"Trial proofs for "Game Creek Bridge" were printed in a variety of color combinations, resulting in two principal color themes for the edition: one with a blue-gray border and monogram (like this impression) the other with a light rust border and monogram.

A watercolor titled "Game Creek Bridge" was probably painted in Kansas. The prints were made in Santa Fe. Game Creek is located a mile of two southeast of Howard, Kansas."