Weitchpec

Byron McClintock

To create the intense color intaglio "Weitchpec" Byron McClintock used a combination of mezzotint, drypoint and roulette, printed in color, which will vary between impressions. The composition, with its deep reds and dark, jagged blacks at its edges evokes memories for local viewers of the Northern California wildfires that have ravaged the state the past few years.

McClintock, who was part of the Abstract Expressionist movement in the San Francisco Bay Area reinvigorated his printmaking career while in his early seventies, while battling the beginning of macular degeneration, which has since ended his career.

Weitchpec, a community within the Yurok reservation, is located in the northwestern part of California in Humboldt County, at the confluence of the Klamath and Trinity Rivers, and the junction of State Highways 96 and 169. McClintock was born about 200 miles northeast, in Klamath Falls, Oregon.