Erosion, Punta Baja from "Baja California Woodcuts"

 

Edgar Dorsey Taylor

  1904 - 1978 (biography)

1969  

woodcut 

15 1/4 x 20 7/8" image 

pencil, lower right 

proof, edition not stated 

penci titled and annotated: "Hand Printed Proof / First State" 

"Baja California Woodcuts", Plantin Press 1969 #25 

cream hosho paper 

first 

Plantin Press 

8349 

$400.00 

This print from is a first state proof from the portfolio Baja California Woodcuts. A book of the same title illustrating this series was published by Plantin Press in L.A. in 1969. "Erosion, Punta Baja" is print number 23 from the series of 50. Taylor commented on this work: "This was a moment in time, on the west coast, that I associate with cold, hard winds swirling up an arroyo and with the taste of succulent lobster boiled in sea water, the sun setting amidst stark contrasts of eroded land."